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ALUMNAE MAGAZINE

In this issue:

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ALUMNAE MAGAZINE

1 OF PERMANENCE AND CHANGE

2 THE OLD MATH AND THE NEW SWEET BRIAR

By President Anne Gary Pannell

4 THE COLLEGE IN A COMPUTER WORLD

8 THE "NEW MORALITY"

By Judith Powell, '67, and Hallam Hurt, '67

12 THE MORE THINGS CHANGE. THE MORE THEY
STAY THE SAME

By Seymour Laughon Rennolds, '51

14 THAT FABULOUS BULB PROJECT

INSERT SECTION: THE SWEET BRIAR FUND 1965-1966

15 TO KEEP UP WITH SWEET BRIAR

By Kay Fitzgerald Booker, '47

22 LES SUNDAY SALONS

By Joan Vail Thorne, '51

24 THE PATTERN IS SUCCESS

Editor

Associate Editor
Class Notes Editor

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34
Nancy St. Clair Talley, '56
Mary Vaughan Blackwell

THE COVER

"Let it rain," says Kathy Ann Trimble, '69, of Little Rock, in a
scene that recurs on campus as brilliant fall weather turns to the
wet and gray of November. The picture is by Mademoiselle.

VOLUME 37, NO. 1

Issued four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Sweet Briar
College. Second class postage paid at Sweet Briar, Virginia 24.595.

Friends of the Library

^^ HEN the Charles A. Dana
Wing opens next spring, a new
group will be at work helping the
Mary Helen Cochran Library. This
is the Friends oj the Sweet Briar
College Library which Elizabeth
Perkins Prothro '.39 is organizing at
the request of the Board of Over-
seers. The purpose of this organiza-
tion is to encourage imderstanding of
the work of the Library; to attract
books, manuscripts, and other re-
sources beyond means of the College
budget: and to serve as a medium
through which friends of the Library
may become acquainted and share
their enthusiasm for books.

At a preliminary meeting held at
Sweet Briar November 17, a consti-
tution was adopted, officers were elec-
ted, and the association, under Eliza-
beth Prothro's chairmanship was
officiallv launched. The group will
be governed by a fourteen member
Council. Jacquelyn Strickland
Dwelle '35 and Ellen Gilliam Perry
'45 have been enlisted to serve on
the first Council. Formation of the
Council is proceeding with deliberate
speed because, Elizabeth reports, "We
are being selective. We want people
who are really interested and who
will work to make the Friends a

A special effort is being made to
assure that there is no conflict be-
tween the Alumnae Fund and the
Friends of tho Library. Alumnae
should note that memberships should
be in addition to, not in place of,
regular annual contributions to the
Alumnae Fund.

^j^ Of Permanence and Change

^^^HANGE Sweet Briar? Change the curriculum to keep up with new
knowledge and new needs in a changing society. Change the campus to
add new buildings, new facilities in old buildings, virtually new tools of
learning. Change the student body each year, with a class graduated and
gone, a new class entering. Change the faculty, retiring some revered mem-
bers and adding some young faces. Change the student regulations as times
change. Change the textbooks as new knowledge is added to old.

Each fall, the new is apparent. Students feel it. Returning alumnae are
struck by it. Faculty and staff discuss it.

But change Sweet Briar? Change the emphasis upon the cultivation of
eternally inquiring minds, upon the worth of knowledge for its own sake?
Change the beauty of the campus, the serenity of the countryside, the grace
of the buildings, the shade of venerable old trees and the calm of gardens
laid out long ago? Change the youth, the health, the vigor, the intellectual
drive, the spiritual awareness of the student body? Change the concern of
the faculty for the individual being taught and for the depth, the breadth,
the truth of the subject learned? Change the intellectual honesty and moral
soundness of the community?

Of course not. The changes at Sweet Briar are changes of growth, not
changes of direction. Neither the purpose of Sweet Briar nor the mood of Sweet
Briar changes with growth. If anything. Sweet Briar becomes "more so" with
changes that sometimes seem enormous.

In this issue, the editors present some aspects of change at Sweet Briar,
seen by students and alumnae, faculty and staff. These views are different.
Yet the Sweet Briar they show is the same Sweet Briar. "Plus ca change,
plus c'est la meme chose."

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The Old Math

and the

New Sweet Briar

I J EFORE the advent of modern mathematics, we
parents used old-fashioned terms and techniques to
teach our youngsters arithmetic. The mystery of sub-
traction was for many of a game of "take-away." Remem-
ber? You have seven apples, you "take-away" three and
so forth ! For a few moments. Fd like to discuss Sweet
Briar College, as we know it today, by means of such
"take-away" arithmetic.

To understand fully what you as alumnae have meant
to the college in the last sixteen years, we would have to
"take-away" many things. Imagine, and some of you
can easily recall what Sweet Briar actually was like,
and would be like, if we "took-away" our lovely new
Chapel and the Guion Science Building. But let's con-
tinue to "take-away." Wouldn't it be a shame to "take-
away" our handsome Mary Reynolds Babcock Fine Arts
Center and Auditorium? What blanks would be left if
we "took-away" die attractive comfort of Meta Glass
and Dew Dormitories! Think what we'd miss if our
new roads, lighting, and countless other less obvious
campus improvements were gone! It is always interest-
ing to note that next year's freshmen . . . and all the
freshmen for years to come . . . will accept all these things
completely for granted. Indeed they quite naturally
assume they've always been here! We don't have time
to suggest all the other "take-away" exercises that could
be conjured up. Some of them would be more difficult
to make tangible. Fortunately, our trustees' investment
committee make sure in their wisdom that their arith-
metic is more in the nature of the multiplication tables
than "take-away," especially where our endowment, up
by $6,734,000 since 1950, is concerned!

A nostalgic look into Sweet Briar's less affluent,
less well-equipped past reminds us, however, that even if
we "took-away" these physical things, much would re-
main — much that is vital, much that is uniquely Sweet
Briar. There would still be the basic, enduring ideals
of sound scholarship; there would still be close student-

teacher relationships, the adventure of learning and the
zest of creative teaching. There would still be memories,
in short, of those men and women of our faculty who, for
sixty years, have led lives of dedicated service to this
institution and to their students. Fortunately our job and
our challenge has always been and continues to be a
matter of giving such people the tools they need for an
ever-better educational program for ever more vigorous
intellectual growth and achievement.

In other words, our concern is not to "take-away"
the salary increases made possible during the last decade
but to add the other resources needed to make our salary
scale ever more competitive. We also look ahead to
adding tools of learning such as our new Charles A.
Dana Library Wing. How wonderful it is that we,
all of us, can look ahead to future projects that will
build upon the heritage of what has gone before at this
lovely Sweet Briar campus!

/\ S AN historian and teacher of American History,
I suppose I have been playing "take-away" for years,
trying to acquaint and impress students with what this
land was like before this space age, before the beatniks,
before the threat and the promise of nuclear energy.
Those were more gentle days, more simple days, less
complicated by most standards, but those days, fascinat-
ing as they are to study, are gone forever. In this era
of frightful crises among world powers, in this day of
new and challenging social patterns, it is well that we
need not "take-away" the resources, the buildings, the
curricular improvements that make Sweet Briar strong in
a day when a weak college would not survive. This nation
and this world need the kind of women who graduate
from Sweet Briar and the need is greater than ever before.
The game of "take-away" therefore cannot make
us complacent. We cannot rest upon our laurels. Each
resource, whether it be bricks, books, or brains, is needed

Alumnae Magazine

What ivould happen if we

reversed the trend, if we undid

the changes and returned to

the Sweet Briar of former

years? In this welcoming address to

Alumnae Council, President Pannell

considers answers to a question like this.

and needed seriously. The full picture of what Sweet
Briar must be is far from complete. There are obvious
shortcomings that call for much continued work and
progress. More endowment is needed for faculty research
and travel, memorial book funds, scholarships, build-
ing maintenance funds, and so on. Our game of "take-
away" is good reverie, good nostalgic fun because it
proves that what should be part of Sweet Briar can be,
and will be part of Sweet Briar! Most important is
the fact that it makes us realize with great humility and
gratitude what Sweet Briar would lack if it had not been
for good and generous alumnae, farsighted foundation
officials, loyal parents, and all the others who have
added so much through the years. These things, coupled
with the deeper, more intangible, spiritual values that
you and I know as the real Sweet Briar, cannot be
"taken-away !"' Instead, they call upon us, indeed they
demand, that we use them with as much skill, imagination,
and wisdom as we can.

Finally, one thing which we would not and could
not "take-away" from our present-day students and facul-
ty is their increased awareness of the world and the so-
ciety in which they live. It is not a pretty world and it
is a society that baffles us in its problem-ridden complex-
ity. This fervent awareness and the desire to find an-
swers is basic to good education now and in the years
ahead. This social consciousness was not a part of camp-
us life to this degree at Sweet Briar or elsewhere ten,
twenty, or forty years ago. Because we would not
"take-away" this increased concern and sensitivity to the
needs of mankind on the part of students we must add,
we must plan, we must chart a sound course for maximum
and effective use of those things which are traditionally
Sweet Briar and which have come to Sweet Briar. These
plus elements, fortunately, cannot be "subtracted" from
the college in which you can take pride as responsible
and responsive Sweet Briar women !

By President Anne Gary Pannell

The College

in a

Computer World

I ^U EXT semester, Sweet Briar initiates a course in the
computer and computer programming, and in January
student records will be kept by data processing. By
September 1967 many college records and all admin-
istrative bookkeeping, will be computerized. Data process-
ing will be available for faculty research, and mathe-
matics graduates will not have to answer "no" to the
question that is becoming standard to job applicants,
"Have you had any experience with computer program-
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How can a small liberal arts college like Sweet Briar
embark upon such a new, and surely expensive, under-
taking? And why should it? The answers to these two
questions concern the whole college and are of great
interest to alumnae, for data processing at Sweet Briar is
revolutionary in many ways.

The "How" is one of the ways. For to make data
processing feasible. Sweet Briar has joined with Lynch-
burg College and Randolph-Macon Woman's College to
establish jointly the Educational Computer Center. Lo-
cated in the Lynchburg Transit Company Building in
Lynchburg, the Educational Computer Center (ECC)
will begin the first of January the operation of an IBM
1401 two-tape, two-disc computer, under the direction of
Donald G. McCants of Lynchburg. Mr. McCants is a
former account representative with the data processing
division of IBM Comporation. Responsible for the devel-
opment of ECC has been a three-man co-ordinating com-

mittee: John Woodroof, assistant business manager at
Lynchburg College, Russell R. Picton. director of develop-
ment and public relations at Randolph-Macon Woman's
College, and Peter V. Daniel, assistant to the President
and Treasurer at Sweet Briar. Mr. Daniel is chairman
of the committee.

I J ATA processing has been under consideration at
Sweet Briar for six years, according to Mr. Daniel. A
few small colleges converted to data processing early in
computer history, but at great expense, and since the
question, "Should Sweet Briar do so?" was one that no
one in the administration felt competent to decide, the
College joined with the two others to retain Systemation,
Inc., to conduct a feasibility study for all three area col-
leges. Should each college work alone toward data pro-
cessing? Should each college go into a service bureau
separately? Should the three colleges pool resources and
purchase or rent equipment themselves? Systemation,
Inc.'s affirmative answer to this last question is unique.
No other three liberal arts colleges in the nation have
joined resources in this manner for data processing. The
Systemation report was approved by the trustees of all
three colleges, and the company was retained further
to aid during the implementation period.

For administrative bookkeeping in the areas of
admissions, student and alumni records, and business

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When the Faculty Show last

year included this spoof (pictured) on computers,

feiv thought that computers at

Siveet Briar would so soon become a reality.

Hoiv the reality has been accomplished,

and the implications of the accomplishment,

are matters of concern to alumnae and to those on campus.

ofiSce records, data processing will undoubtedly prove
more and more useful. But is it necessary that small
liberal arts colleges teach data programming and make
data processing available for research? Is this not a job
for larger centers of learning? Dr. Lilly Rappaport,
professor of physics at Sweet Briar, was somewhat scep-
tical about such necessity. "I took myself to the Com-
puter Center at the University of Virginia, during a Sab-
batical leave second semester of last year, and I found
out," she said, her eyes shining with amusement and
enthusiasm. "The answer is yes."

J_ EXPLAIN. Dr. Rappaport brought out a list of
statistics. In 1950, there were ten to fifteen computers
in the United States. This year, there are some thirty-
five thousand, twenty-one hundred of them costing more
than a million dollars. It is predicted that by 197.5 there
will be eighty-five thousand computers in use in the
I nited States, four thousand of thern costing more than
a million dollars.

This year, two hundred thousand persons are em-
ployed as systems analysts ard programmers. In 1970 —
only four years from now — the number will be five hun-
dred thousand. Clearly, data processing is becoming our
way of life. To quote a current corporate advertisement,
"It's a computer world."

Into this world Lilly Rappaport stepped, somewhat

furtively, when she enrolled at the Computer Center in
Charlottesville last winter. The L^niversity of Virginia
has two computers. One. a Burroughs 600, is used purely
for scientific research. Anyone at tlie University may
use it free, when there is a grant, and outside groups —
for example, an industrial research institute — may rent
computer and programming time on it from the Computer
Center. The second computer, made by IBM, handles
administrative procedures. It also grades multiple choice
tests, and many professors use it. "This computer grades
papers between a million and a billion times faster than
a professor can," Dr. Rappaport said. '"You cannot con-
ceive of how fast a computer works, especially the big
ones."

/ \ COMPLETER is an information machine. Infor-
mation is programmed — put into a code that the machine
can work with — and fed into the machine, and the mach-
ine gives out the answer. It can store, or "remember,"
information, too. The computer uses the binary system,
which is based on two and involves only the manipula-
tion of zero and one. A computer bit, or unit of informa-
tion. Dr. Rappaport explained, may be in one of two
positions (as, on and off, conducting and non-conducting,
and so on), so that with five bits there are thirtv-one
variations, (bit one on. the others off, bits one and two
on, the others off, and so on) and all the letters of the

November 1966

Dr. Lilly Rappaport studied computer
science at the University of Virginia

alphabet, plus some punctuation characters like those
on the standard typewriter, may be realized. Seven bits,
she said, is the basic unit in computer construction. More
units are added to make words and bigger numbers,
and to create more "storage" for memory. The bigger
a computer, the more commands it can carry out. One
of the largest, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
has a million computer words in storage.

I J r. rappaport had hoped to take several courses
in computer theory and usage, but because most of them
began in tlie first semester, and she was free only for the
second, she found herself somewhat on her own. "Besides
a regular computer program, the University of Virginia
offers an intensive short course, three evenings a week
for two weeks," Dr. Rappaport said. "They teach the
fundamentals. Then they tell you to go over to the com-
puter, make your program, feed it in, get it back, cor-
rect it, feed it back. In the beginning I felt as dumb as
dumb could be. Wliat I got was error, error, error —
one mistake, you see, multiplies in a computer. But I got
better."

In Charlottesville, information was fed to the com-
puter by punch cards and the out-put was received by
typewriter. Typing takes more time, so for one computer
five typewriters were necessary. The next information
might return typed as from a typewriter, or in punch
card form, or in graph form. "The current trend is
toward time-sharing of large computers, with distant
teletype machines feeding information into a central
computer," Dr. Rappaport said. "The local console types
directly into the machine from magnetic tape. Like tele-
type, it is hooked through the telephone lines; the answer
comes back in the same form it is transmitted. If you
make a mistake, you know in five minutes. At MIT,
there are now eighty consoles feeding into a tremendous
computer. You can teletype from New York, from
Washington — eventually perhaps from Sweet Briar —

by telephone line to MIT and back. Since everybody is
going to use computers, there will probably be a num-
ber of large computers into which smaller ones will
feed."

W^ OR research purposes, what does a computer ac-
complish ? "To give you an example, you know that you
can take a molecule and make an X-ray diffraction pattern
which defines it," Dr. Rappaport said. "With laborious
work you can figure out the configuration of the mole-
cule. It took years to ascertain the configurations of the
complicated molecules. Now a computer can ascertain
such configurations in seconds. Because of computers,
research will progress at an immeasurably faster rate.

"During the Second World War, there was a certain
set of conditions — I never knew what the practical appli-
cation was, although I have suspicions that it had to
do with mechanical impact and explosives, like a torpedo
— and they wanted to know the answer. Even von Neu-
mann of Brown — who was the authority and who de-
veloped the proposal for die first universal computers —
couldn't figure it out mathematically. Mechanical objects
had to be made to see what they would do. Today, the
computer could find the answer easily.

"My last project in Charlottesville was programming
differential equations with ten variables. To work equa-
tions with a calculating machine would have taken me
months. The computer could figure them in ten seconds."

The theoretical and practical applications of the
computer are limitless. It has been predicted that within
ten years a computer console will become household
equipment comparable to the electric light, the telephone,
the radio, the television. The only obstacle to such con-
sumer use today is cost, and that is expected to diminish
radically before 1975. A computer will pay household
bills, prepare income tax returns, schedule social events,
medical appointments, and even menus and the prepar-
ing of meals. It may help us design our own tools, our

Alumnae Magazine

Peter V. Daniel heads a co-ordinating
committee for member colleges of ECC . . .

own furniture, our own houses. It will find programmed
references while we read a book the subject of which we
wish to augment from another source; thus the computer
will become an every day aid to learning like the diction-
ary and the encyclopedia. In schools, it will be a teach-
ing aid — indeed, in many schools is already a teaching

aid — for drilling and tutoring.

"But a computer can do nothing unless it is directed
properly," Dr. Rappaport cautioned. "In teaching, it can
drill, but it cannot explain the concept being drilled.
There is a professional expression: G-Go. It means,
Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.

"A computer can also be misdirected on purpose.
When you begin work with computer, you feed in your
name, the project, and a code word. The code word is
never printed. Nobody can monkey with the project un-
less they know the code word. This is not because infor-
mation may cross within a computer, which is not the
case, but rather because a jealous scientist or a stupid
prankster could wreck a project.

\\ HAT Sweet Briar will offer next semester is a
very simple course in computer understanding. James H.
Laird, from the University of Virginia, will explain the
hardware of the computer, which means the machine with
its input-output-memory devices, and the software of the
programming you put into it. Essentially, the software is
you."

"Such a course in computers must be taught at Sweet
Briar because computers are becoming a necessary tool
for scholars and for workers. Girls going out of college
are assumed to know something about them."

The IBM 1401 computer on which students from
Sweet Briar, Lynchburg College and Randolph-Macon
Woman's College will be initiated into the mysteries of
data processing and programmed learning has 12,000
positions of memory and is second-generation computer

equipment. (The largest of the machines in current use
are third-generation equipment.) Mr. McCants, the direc-
tor of Educational Computer Center, has hired program-
mers and a secretary-receptionist for the Center, and the
computer will be delivered in late December.

In January, the addressing system, the payroll system
and student records will be operational. In February,
accounts payable programming will be underway. In
March, the admissions system will begin modification.
In June, accounts payable conversion will be complete,
and accounts receivable programming will begin. In
September, when admissions and accounts receivable are
operational, conversion to data processing in the admin-
istration of Sweet Briar will be accomplished.

I HIS schedule is not the only complexity with whicii
Peter V. Daniel became involved during the change-over.
"There has been a tremendous amount of detailed co-
operation between the three colleges," he said. "All these
systems to be converted to programming had to be con-
verted simultaneously and in precisely the same manner.
Individuals from each college have met on a weekly basis
with Mr. McCants and the representative from Systema-
tion. Inc., to coordinate the undertaking.

"When ECC begins working, there will be three or
four key punch machines at Sweet Briar, and several at
each of the other colleges. Cards will be transported
to Kemper Street, which is right off the turnpike — it is
interesting that it takes us twenty-five minutes to get there
but it takes Randolph-Macon, much closer, a little more
than fifteen minutes because of the traffic. At ECC. ma-
terial will be sorted on magnetic tape and discpac. The
Center will become another research tool for faculty and
students, comparable to the library or the laboratory.

"It will give us more information than we could
have formerly, and more quickly," Mr. Daniel concluded,
"to allow us to run a better college."

November 1966

By Judith Powell '67

The

"New Morality

ICK up almost any newspaper or magazine these
days, listen to almost any panel discussion on "youth,"
talk to almost any psychologist, and sooner or later the
term "New Morality" is bound to appear. This elusive
term, as vacuous and ambiguous as the Great Society or
Space Race, encompasses a vast body of expressions used
to describe the spirit of the college and high school gen-
eration of the 1960's and includes such key phrases as
LSD "trips," God is dead, pot parties, the frug, and sexual
freedom.

To attempt a more clear-cut definition of tlie "new
morality" would be indeed difficult, for the term itself is
misleading. Each generation has in some way shaped
its own particular code of morality by altering those
standards of the preceeding generation to meet the needs
of the times. Perhaps then it is safer and indeed more
truthful to regard the changes taking place today as simp-
ly a part of the much larger trend which started long
ago and which will continue long after we cease to be
actively involved in it.

Today, however, perhaps more than ever, there is
an intense self-consciousness among young people who,
faced with the unfathomable problems of modern tech-
nology, are expressing an overwhelming desire to main-
tain their individuality. This striving for individuality
has found its most vivid expression in recent years in
the music, clothes, and moral code of the generation of
the 60's, and it is around these particular outcries of
individuality that the term "new morality" had been
shaped.

The question, now, is where does Sweet Briar Col-
lege with its 714 students fit into the changing system of
^^ values? As an institution for the education of young

women, Sweet Briar could certainly be a potential site for
advocates, of the new morality. In spite of the Berkley
riots, the pot parties prevalent in colleges and univer-
55 sities up and down the East Coast (mostly up 1 . the Hot

Nuts, and James Brown, this campus to all outward ap-
pearances has remained unruffled. Standing alone, forti-
^^ fied against invasion from the nearest men's college by 36

miles of mountain roads. Sweet Briar still reflects the
quiet atmosphere of peaceful country life.

Obviously, Sweet Briar's response to the new moral-
ity has taken on a subtler form than those of the larger
and more vocal institutions of higher education. Over
the last few years, it seems to me, a gradual change of
attitudes among students has been taking place quietly,
which has shifted the emphasis away from the College to
the individual as a final judge in issues of morality. This
new feeling is showing itself in a variety of forms, but it
can be most clearly demonstrated in regard to Sweet
Briar's honor system.

Alumnae Magazine

By Hallam Hurt '67

Here the problem of individual judgment is placed
in direct conflict with a system which demands obedience
and acceptance of all prescribed college rules and regu-
lations. On pledging one's honor to the Sweet Briar
honor system, one is automatically surrendering her own
right to individual choice. In light of the current trend
toward greater individual freedom the problem here is
evident, for the individual is forced to submit her own
judgment to the predetermined judgment of the College.

A recent survey of SBC supports this theory and
indicates further the direction of this trend. Out of
those questionnaires returned, 80'}i indicated they thought
the highest moral right should rest with the individual
rather than with the parents or with t';e College. Accord-
ing to one freshman from the Northeast, "Social morality
is something each should determii e for herself and be
willing to accept the consequences. College is the middle
period between adolescence and adulthood. It is an
opportunity to lest your code. The college should give
the student the opportunity to grow up; to deny this is
cruel."

Sex is always part of any discussion concerning
morality, since today immorality is often confused as be-
ing synonomous with sexual immorality. Sex does exist
at Sweet Briar as it always has. Perhaps the difference
lies not so much in the fact of sex, but in the frank dis-
section and discussion of the subject. One alumna
daughter said, "You can't tell me sex wasn't around when
my mother went to Sweet Briar. They just didn't discuss
it the way we do."

It IS becoming more and more apparent that while
one may not indulge in sexual relations herself she will
not readily condemn it in others. A senior from the South
expressed this feeling. "I don't care what people do as
long as they keep it to themselves. That's the way people
I know feel. It's when it becomes a means to popularity
or a topic of conversation that it becomes offensive. Also,
it's bad when it's such public knowledge that it hurts
the reputation of the school."

Sex then, like everything else, in the opinion of the
students, is a matter of personal judgment and as long
as one's behavior does not injure in any way the repu-
tation of the school, a student may set her own standards
without being condemned by her peers.

"There are too many rules here that have nothing
to do with most people's personal sense of honor," ac-
cording to one senior. "It's not surprising to find many
people who consider that they hold honorable principles
breaking rules which are in no way related to their own
personal value system."

(Continued on the next Page)

The Chairman of the Judicial
Board gave the following
speech on Parent s Day,

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\^ HEN I was told that the topic for today was
to be the Role of the Ideal Parent and that I was to be
speaking from the Judicial point of view, I asked my
parents if they had any suggestions as to what I could
say. My father looked thoughtful for a moment and
then said that as he recalled, Mr. Jefferson, founder of
our neighboring university in Charlottesville, had had
as one of his tenets the idea that the least governed are
the best governed. I must admit that I heartily agreed
with his idea, although I do recall a number of times
when apparently my father had a lapse of memory con-
cerning Mr. Jefferson's tenet.

In applying this idea to Sweet Briar, (and I am not
so certain that I would have unanimous support from
my fellow students) I would venture to assert that Sweet
Briar does attempt to give its students as much oppor-
tunity as is possible to govern themselves.

I am not saying, however, that by sending your
daughter to Sweet Briar you are sending her off to a
quiet niche of anarchy in tlie foothills of Virginia —
for Sweet Briar, as a residential college, is pretty well
informed as to exactly where your daughter is, what she
is doing, and with whom she is doing it. This may sound
as if, contrary to what I said before, we are living under
a rather large amount of Sweet Briar government. But.
there remains an even larger area — the area in uliicli
your daughter is responsible for her own actions and
answers only to herself.

I am not certain how familiar you are wilh lioiior
systems, but at Sweet Briar our honor system is a con-
tract between Uie students and the faculty and adminis-
tration. This contract is a gift from Sweet Briar. From
the moment we set foot on campus as Sweet Briar stu-
dents. Sweet Briar trusts us as honorable persons and
respects us as such. In return we give our word that we
will act in a responsible and honorable fashion. By pledg-
ing this we are assuring ourselves of a free community in
which we all move without restraint and in a common
trust of one another. This is really a vital and necessary
component in the academic world, in which freedom
and the search for truth are perhaps the two most esteem-
ed principles.

(Continued on the next Page)

November 1966

"NewMorality"continuecl

Judith Powell '67

The real mistake, many think, is in the inclusion of
the rules governing social behavior within the honor sys-
tem itself. Fifty per cent of the questionnaires returned
indicated the honor system was significantly weakened
by having social regulations in it. With regard to ques-
tions of academic honesty, lying, and stealing, the student
body as a whole has the same personal standards as those
directed by the College. It is only in the realm of the
social tliat the norms of the school and the individual
student are at variance. A junior offered her own sug-
gestion, "Couldn't the school just tell us what is expected
of us in social situations and leave it up to us to use our
own discretion? The way it's set up now, I've separated
the honor system into two halves in my mind — respect-
ing one part and setting my own terms in the other."

The administration is, however, atuned to this new
spirit and is responding to the situation realistically and
with great care. Last year after thorough re-excunina-
tion of the social regulations, the College Council, com-
posed of faculty and students, modified the apartment
rule, which forbade any student to enter a boy's apart-
ment in Charlottesville or Lexington or in the Amherst-
Lynchburg area without the presence of a third party.
This rule, according to one upperclassman, "was totally
irrelevant to morality but existed purely for the sake
of appearances. Apartment was used as synonymous with
bedroom and the whole idea of the individual's own re-

sponsible moral judgment was buried under a mask of
appearances."

A response of the administration to this current
trend toward individual standards is its recent stand on
moral behavior, found in the new student handbook.
Here it states, "Any student accepting a place at Sweet
Briar College should know that the College will not tol-
erate extremes of social behavior which are injurious to
the individual, the community, or the College. The mis-
use of alcohol or drugs and sexual behavior which af-
fronts contemporary moral standards will not be con-
doned . . ."

The student attitude toward this new policy on the
whole seems quite favorable. Indicative of student ap-
proval is the 70% of those surveyed who believed the
stand was a realistic one in light of the responsibility any
school must assume to protect its interests and the best in-
terests of its students.

According to a sophomore, "The school does have
a responsibility to make rules governing student be-
havior and the student does have the obligation to uphold
them because she has agreed to live in the community.
It is only when the school over-extends this right that the
students object because it is taken as an affront to their
personal integrity."

This policy, however, is one which does seem to
leave to each student a reasonable degree of individual
freedom of choice within certain prescribed limits and in
that way to a realistic balance between imposed authority
and individual judgment. One opinion of the recent state-
ment is found in this senior's response:

"I find that the responsibility placed on me by the
new clause leaves me room to discover and test my in-
dividual ideas of healthy conduct in the context of my
own life."

Alumnae Magazine

The terms of the "new morality" at Sweet Briar do
not include an outbreak of student revolt against the
administration and the "old morality," often associated
by our generation with the Establishment, for students as
a whole recognize the College's responsibility to protect
tlie interests of all those connected with it. The terms
are, instead for a more open policy based on the individ-
ual's personal integrity and her own standards of moral
conduct. The administration at Sweet Briar College is
alert to this need and is responding realistically and
thoughtfully, for it realizes that only by working together
can the college and the students grow with the times.

Hallam Hurt '67

Here —

When your daughter takes an examination, it
is not proctored;

When she hands in a paper, the work is unques-
tionably hers;

When she gives her word, it is honored.

There is no question but that this is a large dose
of responsibility, and, it does not end in the academic
sphere.

In a time in which parents have been tearing their
hair over the so-called new morality, Sweet Briar has
not been complacent. Realizing that this is a growing
problem, and not one that will happily vanish over the
summer months, Sweet Briar has now put into writing
what had heretofore been an unwritten policy. This fall
for the first time there appeared in the Student Hand-

book a statement of policy of Sweet Briar College, which
reads as follows:

"Any student accepting a place at Sweet Briar Col-
lege should know that the College will not tolerate ex-
tremes of social behavior which are injurious to the
individual, the community or the College. The misuse
of alcohol or drugs and sexual behavior which affronts
contemporary moral standards will not be condoned.

"The President's judgment suffices in dealing with in-
cidents in these areas, and the penalty of suspension or
expulsion may be used at her discretion.

"The President and the Deans will be willing to clar-
ify the College's interpretation of the above statement
as well as its definition of acceptable behavior in particu-
lar circumstances.

"Any student unwilling to acknowledge such author-
ity on the part of the College is advised to withdraw."

As you can see the College is not dictating an ab-
solute personal moral code, it is merely saying that should
there be any flagrant violations of what it considers ac-
ceptable moral behavior, it will handle them accordingly.

However, once again your daughter is left with a vast
area in which she must make her own decisions. These
decisions are not easy — and yet this is the time when we
have become of age to make such decisions.

I feel somewhat presumptuous in saying what I
think the role of the ideal parent is in these situations,
but I would venture the following:

Teach your daughter moral virtue in a time in which
hers may be sorely tried.

Teach her the absoluteness of honesty in a time in
which everyday perjury is flagrant.

But most of all, respect her. She is herself now.

November 1966

What with news dispatches from Berkeley and the

depth coverage by national weekly

magazines, to mention only two, the college student

today is much before us. The author, a

member of the Alumnae Association s Publications Committee,

visited Siveet Briar recently to see ivhat changes she

found in student dress and habits after fifteen years. Here

she reports the look of today as seen by one

nurtured on the New Look of the post-World War II era.

'51 : '"Eight hours to curl minr." "66: "Four hours tit get mine straight.'

The More Things

If'htit would "66 have thoughl oj Russian Sabtr,
waist rinrhrrs. an/1 Baby Dolts?

/~\ FTER a toe-dipping glance at the local College
Shop full of purple size 7's, I plunged into Sweet Briar
on a Wednesday in October to see what the present gene-
ration looks like. I found myself in a Sargasso Sea of
mermaid's hair. It is absolutely beyond me how it could
all have been so clean. (If any readers ever had clean
hair on a Wednesday, please write a letter to the Editor. )
There are several categories of it, mostly much.

The Rapunzel hair is more than clean. It must be
treated in some way, to flow in flat shining rivulets, with
a liquid, metallic movement. It is not obstructively in
their faces, but it doesn't usually have a part, either. I
wonder whetlier they sleep with it inside or outside the
covers.

The Alice-in-Wonderland hair is more flyaway, but
held off the forehead by a band, or ribbon, or some of
itself oddly going sideways. I was hospitably shown the
inside of one girl's bureau. She had more than a cigar-
box full of hair ribbons and a shoebox full of large
rollers, plus clips.

The in-betweens have the length hair that we did.
but it goes in a pair of curves like facing question
marks, with a flirty flip to the little bottom arc. There
are two types of short cut, the Ringo and the Modified
Sassoon, and, strange to say, they don't look funny.
A certain shortness or thinness over the ear, just behind
what not their grandmothers but ours would have
called kiss-curls on the cheeks, allows glimpses of the

Alumnae Magazine

''Well, I do

New gymnsuits, which may

"I have two pairs of

sort of sic

tot be worn, evn under

heels, one calf and one

sideways on

skirts, to classrooms.

burlap . . ."

a sofa."''

Cray flannel

costume for

Ma'am, I've got on TU

a big

lipsticks:"

evening.

Change, the More They Stay the Same

tiny gold pierced-eanings which niaiiv of tliem wear.
Their fingernails are natural, thank goodness, and
their faces all look shining clean. I thought it was nice
the way no lipstick made their eyes stand out. Ha! That
bureau drawer held every eye cosmetic known to mortal
woman from Cleopatra's kohl on, and twelve lipsticks
ranging from taupe to flamingo, intended, it was ex-
plained, to be combined for maximum effect. (You put
a little Alice Blue over top of Ashes of Roses. I The
darkest shade is the color pink rayon underwear was.

I HAD expected a humbling vistn of trim little hips,
bu their short straight skirts give an optical illusion of
rude good health. I guess their rule is, don't buy it if it's
wider than long. The Handbook states that hems mav he
no more than an inch above the knees. (That Handbook
is a caution. No bare feet in public areas — what made
them think of that?) I guess it is a way of giving them
a few little rules o break ( or stretch, like the definition of
LARGE in reference to the scarf which must cover curl-
ers) so they can have something to to do for innocent
devilment.

In comparison with our lives under regulations.
theirs is just too responsible. It is nibbling away at
their girlhood, all this Student Government. They go
off for weekends in straight wool up to the neck dresses
that look for all the world like a woman's club meeting.

and they keep their evening dress and one silk dress at
home. I was relieved to find them sitting on the Post
Office floor peeking through the boxes at the mail being
put up. They assured me that they write to more than
one boy. Proposals were on the way out in our day.
but I did hope that flirtation was still in.

I HE\ have to study harder and more than we did.
And of course they like it, or they couldn't have gotten
in in the first place. But thev are no bluestockings. Thev
are girls, and ladies, with giggles and fun and hopes and
dreams. It's really just ruffles that they don't have any of,
ruffled petticoats and bare shoulders and whispering skirts
and songs like Stardust.

It's fairly obvious that their morals are just fine. But
I'm worried about whether they have any romance. Com-
ing from the age that had to break fathers to strapless
evening dresses, I guess I should remember another gene-
ration's lifted eyebrows when we brought home "kiss-
proof " lipstick.

So they may not know the language of the fan, but
neither did we. Maybe opera pumps and gloves will
come back some day, and maybe so will boys ard girls
dancing together. But the funny thing is the girls look
just beautiful to the boys, and so did we, and so did
Flappers, and so did Eve. The more things change, the
more they stay the same.

November 1966

Story and Pictures by Seymouk Laughon Ren.nolds. ".51

That Fabulous Bulb Project

_|_T SEEMS incredible that bulbs,
which must be planted from three to
eight inches below the ground, can
fly two alumnae to Europe, but this
merger of inner and outer space has
finally been brought off by two Sweet
Briar alumnae. Elizabeth Shepherd
Scott '4.3. of Wilmington, Delaware,
and Anne Sheffield Hale '.54, of At-
lanta, Georgia, sold more bulbs last
spring and summer than any other
alumnae ( except Vivienne Barkalow
Hornbeck '18 and Blair Bunting Both
'40, who disqualified themselves for
the prize. I Mrs. Scott's total sales
amounted to $1,311.26 and Mrs.
Hale's came to $1,117.30.

The prize they won is a round trip
plan ticket to Holland. Wliile in
Holland they will be the guests of
Van Zyverden Brothers, from whom
we buy our bulbs. If they wish, they
may stay longer and travel about the
continent at their own expense.

In addition to their hospitality to
the prizewinners, Van Zyverden
Brothers has given several thousand
bulbs to the College this fall to be
planted around Sweet Briar House

and in front of the Alumnae House.
Forty-six alumnae clubs and thir-
teen alumnae in areas not affiliated
with Sweet Briar clubs, sold a grand
total of $95,267.02 this year, which
earned commissions of over $37,000

for scholarships and other needs of
the College. The Bulb Commitee
has set a goal of $100,000 for 1967
and hopes to be able to offer another
prize trip next year. Watch for the
announcement at a later date.

Club No.

of Orders

Amount

Club No.

of Orders

Amount

Asheville

$ 92 66

Princeton

150

$ 2.008.25

Atlanta

383

6,457.31

Rale-gh

117.19

Austin

266 48

Richmond

293

5.263.73

Baltimore

320

4,925.75

Roanoke

1.026..56

Boston

147

2,378.67

Rochester

137

2.0.50.04

-So. California

736.58

■San Francisco

.3S.75

Charleston. W. Va.

47.75

Savannah

291.75

Charlotte

2,284.52

St. Louis

1.264,82

Charlottesville

143

2.419.10

Seattle

179,30

Chattanooga

1.670.64

Toledo

690,71

Chicago

1.560.93

Utica

474,79

Cincinnati

128

2,310.99

Washington

430

10.711,08

Cleveland

141

2,867.72

Westchester

2.206.22

Columbia

188,19

Wilmington

187

4.742.88

So. Connecticut

145

2.754,73

Winston-Salem

197.70

Dallas

917,26

Alumnae Office

176

3.822 29

Denver

335.18

Polly Calhoun "31

920.03

Greensboro

1.550.61

Margaret Dickey "41

682,12

Huntsville

366.51

Elizabeth Weis "43

254.27

Indianapolis

1.522,99

Susan Heminway "58

220,27

Lon'; Island

321.49

Nancv Tallev ".56

1.52,95

Louisville

105

2.534,91

Esther Holland '43

144.70

Lynchburg

108

1.601,10

Elizabeth Hall "18

103.45

Macon

403,57

Julia B. Jackson ",56

101,75

Minneapolis

1.117.41

Bessie Lee Siegrist '38

90,95

Nashville

922 00

Carol'ne Garner '56

84,40

Norfolk

143

1,914,02

Virginia Rogers '50

78.75

No, New Jersey

177

3.335,95

Elizabeth Hastings '34

49 10

I'l-ninsula

999,30

Stephanie Stokes '64

46,40

Philadelphia

248

4.607.95

.Amaryllis Sales

484

3.275,68

Pittsburgh

563.87

GRAND TOTAL

$95,267,02

Alumnae Magazine

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SWEET BRIAR FUND

REPORT
1965-1966

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Geraldinc Jones Lewis
Frances Kenney Lyon
Corinne Lonev Benson
Virginia Lovell Haggart
Helen Mason Smith
Ida Massie Valentine
Elmyra Pennvpacker Yerkcs
Frances Raiff Wood
Mary Rancv Hammack
Margaret "turner French
Isabel Webb Luff

1921

Agent:

Ophelia Short Seward

Marjorie Abraham Meyer
Emma Adams Kyle
Josephine Ahara MacMillan
Rhoda Allen Worden
Gertrude Anderson
Ruth Armislead Robinson
Elizabeth Baldwin Whitehurst
Madelaine Bigger
Russe Blanks Butts
Julia Bruner Andrews
Catherine Cordes Kline
Florence Dowden Wood
Edith Durrell Marshall
Mildred Ellis Scales
Fanny Ellsworth Scannell
Frances Evans Ives
■ Ruth Geer Boice
Mattie Hammond Smith
Catherine Hanttch
Frances Helmick Buell
Florence Ives Hathaway
Marian Lincoln Cox
Mary McLemore Matthews
Marie Matthews Lee
Gertrude Pauly Crawford
Katharine PennewiU Lynch
Mayneite Rozelle Stephenson
Marian Sha/er Wadhams
Madelon Shidler OIney
Elizabeth Shoop Dixon
Ophelia Short Seward
Frances Simpson Cartwright
Ruth Simpson Carrington
Harriet Smith Frey
Mary Taylor Corley
Gertrude' Thams
Miriam Thompson Winne
Ethel Wilson Hornsfey
Hattie Wilson Diggs
Florence Woelfel Elston

Agent:

Marion Walker Neidlinger

Alice Babcock Simon;
Julia Benner Moss
Lorraine Bowles Chrisman
Selma Brandt Kress
Gertrude Dally Massie
Burd Dickson Stevenson
Ruth Fiske Steegar
Elinor Flournoy Parsons
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Stella Gwynn Waugh
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Anita Sloss Wadsworlh
Grizzelle Thomson
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Marion Walker Neidlinger

1923

Agent:

Frances Lauierbach

Marion Bradley Bothe
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Margaret Burwell Graves
Helen Cannon Hills
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Emma Crockett Owen
Dorothy Ellis Worley
Lillian Everett Blake
Helen Gaus
Gertrude Geer Bassett
Yalena Crgilsch Prosch

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Fritzallen Kendall Fearing
Marie Klooz

Mary LaBoiteaux Dunbar
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Helen McMahon
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Catherine Meade Montgomery
Edith Miller McClintock
Marjorie MilUgan Bassett
Phyllis Payne Gathrighl
Evelyn Plummer Read
Lydia Purcell Wilmer
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Virginia Stanberry Schneider
Marie Steinman
Elizabeth Taylor Parker
Helen Taylor
Elisabeth Thigpen Hill
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Isabel Virden Faulkner
Lorna Weber Dowling
Katharine Weiser Ekelund
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Margaret Wise O'Neal
Katherine Zeuch Forster

1924

Agent:

Martha Lobingier Lusk

Frederica Bernhard
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Marie Brede Zimmerman
Mary Elizabeth Cornick Rixey
Margaret Covington Milwee
Willetta Dolle Murrin
Byrd Fiery Bomar
Susan Fitchett
Jacqueline Franke Charles
Jean Grant Taylor
Marian Grimes Collins
Elizabeth Guy Tranter
Eleanor Harned Arp
Anne James Carrington
Emily Jeffrey Williams
Susan Johnston Jones
Lydia Kimball Maxam
Clara King Maxwell
Kathryn Klumph McGuire
Martha Lobingier Lusk
Muriel MacLeod Searby
Lorraine McCriller Stotl
Mary Marshall Hobson
Josephine vonMaur Crampton
Emily Meredith Strange-Boston
Grace Merrick Twohy
Dorothy Meyers Rixey
Mary Millard Webb
Phyllis Millinger Camp
Mary Mitchell Stackhouse
Frances Nash Burgher
Margaret Nelson Lloyd
Elizabeth Pape Mercur
Mary Petty Hardwick
Helen Prange Chesebro
Mary Rich Robertson
Thomasine Rose Maury
Eleanor Sikes Peters
Susan Simrall Logan
Rebecca Snyder Garrison
Elizabeth Sparrow Crothers
Mary Stephens Henderson
Elizabeth Studley Kirkpatnck
Marian Swannell Wright
Marion Taylor Schroth
Florence Westgate Kraffert
Elise Wood Von Maur
Gladys Woodward Hubbard
Elizabeth Woollcott Stanier
Alice Wray Bailey

Agent:

Mary Dowds Houck

Katherine Agard Flewelling
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Helen Bane Davis
Jane Becker Clippinger
Eunice Branch Hamilton
Virginia Burke Miller
Mary Craighill Kinyoun
Mary Dowds Houck
Woodis Finch Roberts
Muriel Fossum Pesek
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Martha Jamison Causey
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lone McKemie Walker
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Margaret Masters Klauder
Eleanor Miller Patterson
Elsie Munro Haller
Kathleen Newbv McGee
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Evelyn Pretlow Rutledge
Mary Reed Hartshorn
Viary Sailer Gardiner
Romayne Schooley Ferenbach
Juliet 5W*y Hill
Lucille Smith Lindner
Mary Sturgis
Ruth Taylor Franklin
Helen Tremann Spahr
Louise Wade Kelley
Evelyn Way
Mary Welch Hemphill
Virginia Whitlock Moll

Agent:

Helen Mutschler Becker

Ruth A bell Bear
Rebecca' y4s/ic/-a/r Warren
Nell Atkins Hagemeyer
Mart Backman McCoy
Anne Barrett Allaire
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Martha Close Page
Marion Crane Palerson
Jane Cunningham
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Margaretta Denman Wilson
Polly Cao- Dew Woodson
Page Dunlap Dee
Helen Dunieavy Mitchell
Gudrun Eskesen Chase
Catharine Farrand Elder
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Helen Haseltine
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Elisabeth Holtzman Sellman
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Mary Kerr Burton
Margaret Laidley Smith
Edna Lee Gilchrist
Mildred Lovett Matthews
Alberta MacQueen deRonge
Virginia Mack Senter
Elizabeth Matthew Nichols
Anne Maybank Cain
Sarah Merrick Houriet
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Anonymous
Mary Stoddard Frary
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Katharine Van Cleve VanWyck
Marion VanCott Borg
Cornelia Wailes Wailes
Barbara Ware Smith
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1927

Agent:

Elise Morley Fink

Maude Adams Smith
Eleanor y4/Z>tfrs Foltz
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Martha Ambrose Nunnally
Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey
Marjorie Atlee Parks
Ruth Aunspaugh Daniels
Jeanette Boone
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Elizabeth' jBm£/v Lockwood
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Mary Close Gleason
Louise Collins Schroeder
Caroline Compton
Elizabeth Cox Johnson
Margaret Cramer Crane
Esther Dickinson Robbins
Alice Eskesen Ganzel
Elizabeth Forsyth
Elsetta Gilchrist Barnes'
Emilie Halsell Marston

Claire Manner Arnold
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Gwin Harris Tucker
Emily Jones Hodge
Margaret Leel Bnganti
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Margaret Lovett
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Elisabeth Mathews Wallace
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Gretchen Orr Swift
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Agent:

Virginia Van Winkle Morltdge

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Agent:

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Amelia Holiis Scoll

Martha Jones

Josephine Ktuitz RuffJn

Margaret Kneedler Fellows

Barbara Lewis Howard

Elizabeth Lewis Reed

Mildred Lewis Adkins

Louise Lutz

Mar>' Ann McDiarmid Scrodino

Sarah McKee Slanger

Martha Maupin Stewart

Mary Moore Milton

Annie Neal Huntling

Elizabeth Neill Danner

Gertrude Prior

Frances Bedford Marshall

Helen Schaumlef/el Ferrec

Mary Shelion Clark

Natalie Sidman Smith

Josephine Tatman Mason

Con Thompson Ball

Eugenia Tillman McKenzie

Anna Torian Owens

Sue Tucker Yates

Esther rW<T Campbell

Helen Weitzmann Bailey

Jane Wilkinson Banyard

Amelia Woodward Davier

Barbara Yohn Prothcro

^iv

1930

Agenl:

Myra Marshall Brush

Serena Ailes Worchesier
Telia Barksdale Bailey
Helen Beard Huntington
Kalryne Blake Moore
Elizabeth Boone Willis
Katherine Brown Chinn
Elizabeth Bryan Bond
Mary Bwr/cj'Saltz
Jane Callison Smith
Elizabeth Carnes
Delma Chambers Glazier
Charlotte Coles Friedmann
Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet
Mcrr>- Curtis Loving
Evaline Edmonds Thoma
Lucy Fishburne Davis
Fanny Ford Libby
Gratia Geer Howe
Claire Giesecke Wingo
Elizabeth Gorsline
Kathryn Graham Seiter
Ruth Hasson Smith
Eleanor Henderson Edwards
Mary Huntington Harrison
Evelyn Jackson Blackslock
Mercer Jackson Wcllford
Elizabeth Johnston Jarvis
XWcc Jones Taylor
Lindsay Kindleberger
Martha Lambeth Kilgore
Virginia LeHardy BcU
Anne Lewis MacClintock
Florence Lodge McC^*"
Boyce Lokey Martin
Mary Lyon Stedman
Elizabeth McCrady Bardwell
Eleanor Marshall Tucker
Elizabeth Marston Creech
Carolyn Maritndale Blouin
Lucy Miller Babcr
Mar>' Moss Powell
Margaret Sew Polikoff
Gwendolyn Olcoll Writer
Augusta Porter Orr
Lindsay Preniis Woodroofc
Wilhelmina Rankin Tctcr
losephine ^c/f/Stubbs
Emma Riely Lcmaire
Norvell Rover Orgain
Mary Sanford Patten
Elizabeth Saunders Ramsay
Jean Saunders
Lucy Shirley Otis
Wilfred Smith McConiwll
Agnes Sprout Bush
Elizabetn Stevenson Tate
Mildred Stone Green
Marjorie Siurges Moose
Lisle Turner
Evelyn Ware Saunders
Gladys Wester Horlon
Elizabeth Williams Gilmore
Harriett Williams Hcrshberger
Georgie Wilson Mockridge
Lillian Wood Waller

A^ent:

Virginia Cooke Rea

Violet Andersen Groll
Dorothy Ayres Holt

Eda Bainbridge McKnight
Jane Bikle Lane
Dorothy Boyle Charles
Martha von Brtescn
Isabeltc Bush Thomas&on
Mary Carlson King
Janet Carr Greer
Elizabeth S. Clark
Agnes Cleveland Sandifer
Nancy Coe
Jean Cole Anderson
Virginia Cooke Rea
Jean Countryman Presba
Naomi Doty Stead
Josephine (jibbs DuBois
Betty Goff Newhall
Jessie Hall Myers
Caroline Heath Tunstall
Sarah Jester Rust
Matilda Jones Shillington
Mary Kelso Littell
Charlotte Kent Pinckney
Virginia Keyser
Helen Lawrence Vander Horst
Margaret Lee Thompson
Gertrude Lewis Magavern
Katherine Lumbard Kurtis
Elizabeth MacRae Goddard
Martha McBroom Shipman
Meta Moore McColter
Jane Muhlberg Halverstadl
Evelyn Mullen
Jean Ploehn Wernentin
Virginia Quintard Bond
Natalie Roberts Foster
Toole Rotter Mullikin
Phoebe Rowe Peters
Ruth Schoti Benner
Mary Seaion Marston
Helen Sim Mellcn
Elizabeth Stribling Bell
Mary Swift Calhoun
Virginia Tabb Moore
Katherine Taylor Adams
Martha Tillery Thomas
Elizabeth Tyson Posiles
Cynthia Vaughn Price
Ethel Ware Rutherford
Marjorie Webb Maryanov
Peronne Whittaker Scott
Ella Williams Fauber
Harriet Wilson McCaslin
Pauline Woodward Hill
Elizabeth Wooledgc j^amilton
Nancy Worthinglon

1932

Virginia Bellamy Ruffin

Margaret Bennett Cullum

Sue Burnett Davis

Courtenay Cochran Ticer

Alice Dabney Parker

Elizabeth Douglas Foole

Virginia Finch Waller

Jessie Fisher Gordon

Constance Fowler Keeble

Eleanor Franke Crawford

Susanne Gay Linville

Mildred Gibbons

Helen Goodwin Lowe

Sarah Gracey Haskell

Emma Green Kennon

Virginia Hall Lindley ■

Lenore Hancel Sturdy

Sarah Harrison Merrill

Jane Hays Dowlcr

Mildred' //orfgrs Ferry

Elizabeth Hun McAlien

Irene Kellogg

Ruth Kerr Fortune

Anne MacRae

Charlotte Magoffin

Susan Marshall Timberlake

Pally Mason Stedman

Letha Morris Wood

Barbara Munter Purdue

Virginia Nolle Page

Eleanor Nolle Armstrong

Martha Anne O'Brien Cowgill

Hallie Orr Barton

Mary Moore Pancake Mandeville

Marcia Patterson

Helen Pratt Secrcst

Ruth Remon Wenzel

Frances Sencindiver Stewart

Sara Shallenherger Brown

Thcda Sherman Newlin

Dorothy Smith Berkeley

Virginia Squibb Flynn

Hazel Stamps Collins

Mary VanWinkle McClure

Hildegardc Voelcker Hardy

Marjorie Ward Cross

Elizabeth West Eiheredge

Alice Weymouth McCord

Lillian Wilkinson Bryson

Nancy Wilson Drcwry

1933

Margaret Austin Johnson

Rose Bear Burks

Anne Brooke

Sarah Brown Palmer

Mary Buick

Marjorie Burford Crenshaw ^

Mary Elizabeth demons Porzelius

Jessie Coburn Laukhuff

Doris Crane Loveland

Nevil Crule Holmes

Blanche Davies Barloon

Elizabeth Dawson Birch

Emily Denton Tunis

Marietta Derby Garst

Elena Doty Angus

Sue Graves Stubbs

Elizabeth Gray

Margery Gubelman Hastert

Mary Hammond Cook

Julia Harris Toomey

Emma Hills Boyd

Jean vanHome Baber

Sarah Houston Baker

Kathrina Howze Maclellan

Margaret W. Imbrie

Mar>' G. Imbrie

Ella Jesse Latham

Lena Jones Craig

Ellen Kelly Follin

Margaret lan/er Chambers

Katherine LeBlond Farquhar

Geraldine Mallory

Alice Martin Cooper

Helen Martin

Jane Martin Person

Anne Marvin

Elizabeth Vann Moore

Cornelia Murray Wetler

Isabelle Neer Semple

Frances Neville Newberry

Mary Neville Sieman

Katherine Oglesby Mixson

Mary Palion Bromfield

Carolyn Pierce May

Frances Powell Zoppa

Gertrude Raymond Dempster

Marjorie Ris Hand

Mary Roberts Waynick

Josephine Ruckcr Powell

Jeanetle Shambaugh Stein

Abigail Shepard Bean

Gotten Skinner Sheperd

Mary Spalding Osterman

Charlotte Tomblyn Tufts

Leila VanLeer Schwaab

Virginia Vesey Woodward

Langhorne Watts Austen

Margaret Woyland Taylor

Hetty Welts Finn

Carolyn Wilson Hunt

Betty Workman Wright

Glen Worthinglon Johnson

STTT-'-'

1934

A:^eru:

Cecil Birdsey Fuessle

Eleanor Alcoit Bromley
Dorothy Andrews Kramer
Anne Armstrong Allen
Ruberta Bailey Hcsseltine
Helen Bean Emery
Cecilia Birdsey Fuessle
Elizabeth Bond Wood
Virginia Broun Lawson
Connie Burwett While
Nancy Butzner Leavell
Betty Carter Clark
Elizabeth Collier Wardle
Anne Corbiti Little
Julia Dougherty Musser
Amy Davies Yingling
Louise Dreyer Bradley
Emilie Emory Leary
Elizabeth Eskridge Ambler
Joanna Fink Mceks
Elinor Fitch Welch
Virginia Foster Gruen
Rosemary Frey Rogers
Deborah Gale Bryer
Uarda Garrett Coley
Lydia Goodwyn Ferrell
Louise Greenwood Lippitt
Marion Gwoltney Hall
Frances Hallett Denton
Thelma Hani/en Fried
Helen Hanson Bamford
Nancy Hoichkiss Boschen
Dorothy Hutchinson Howe
Bernadene Johnson Foote
Marjorie Lasar Hurd
Martha Lemmon Stohlman
Dearing Lewis
Jean Lydecker Roberts
Mary McCandlish Livingston
Bonney McDonald Hatch
Emily Marsh Nichols
Elizabeth Mayfietd Chapman
Katharine Means Ncely
Mar>' Moore Rowe
Jane Morrison Moore
Marcia Morrison Curtis

Priscilla Mullen Gowcn
Ruth Myers Pleasanis
Mary Nelson Becker
Margaret Newton
Cordelia Penn Cannon
Mary Pringte
Margaret Ross Ellice
Mary Lee Ryan Strolher
Julia Sadler deColigny
Elizabeth Scheuer Maxwell
Julia Shirley Patterson
Marjorie Smith Zengel
Jean Sprague Hulvey
Marguerite Stephens Sheridan
Kate Sttauss Solmssen
Betty Suttle Briscoe
Marjorie VanEvera Lovelace
Frances Weil Binswanger
Katharine Wiltioms McCollum
Bonnie Wood Stookey

\ 1935

Agent:

Elizabeth Broun Trout

Ray Adter Cochran
Isabel Anderson Comer
Anne Baker Gerhart
Dorothy Barnum Venter
Barbara Benzinger Lindsley
Laura Babbitt Shuffle
Elizabeth Broun Trout
Jane Bryant Hurlbert
Cary Burwetl Carter -
Allyn Capron Heintz
Helen Carrulhers Hackwell
Margaret Carry Durland
Anne Cockrill Wait
Florence Crane Goodfellow
Geneva Grossman Stevens
Virginia Cunningham Brookes
Margharita Curtze Vicary
Jessie Davis Hall
Claudia £)e Wo// Shepherd
Lavalette Dillon Wintzer
Mary Dungtinson Day
Alison Dunne Harrison
Marguerite Duval McGinnis
Hester England
Sallic Flint VonKann
Ruth Gilliland Hardman
Juliet Halliburton Burnett
Elizabeth Hamilton Hunt
Cynthia Harbison Heye
Mary Jane Hastings Dunfee
Beverley Hill Furniss
Joyce Hobart Bullard
Lucy Hoblitzetl
Rebekah Huber
Helen Jackson Hagan
Elizabeth Johnston Clute
Blandina Jones Skilton
Manha Jones Belts
Elizabeth Klinedinsi McGavran
Hester Kraemer Avery
Grace Langeler Irvine
Alice Laubach
Jane Lawder

Alice McCloskey Schlendorf
Mary McPherson Harper
Mary Marks
Frances Meeks Ford
Jane Mitchell Robeson
Frances Morrison Ruddell
Betty Myers Harding
Mznhdi'Neunschwander Founds
Julia Peicrkin
Evelyn Poole Brown
Sarah Rick Putman
Margaret Rose Turnbull
Mar>' Saul Hunt
Isabel Scriba
Frances Spiller Merrill
Suuinne Strassburger Anderson
Jacquclyn Strickland Dwelle
Natalae Strickland Waters
Ann Temple Benton
Mary Templelon
• Eleanor Townsend Rector
Lois Vanderhoef Benner
Lida Voigt Young
Marion Walker Alcaro
Mary Whipple Clark
Adelaide Whitford \\\cr\
Maud Winborne Leigh
Helen Wolcotl
Rebecca Young Frazer

1936

fi^arLi Hu\U-\ Dick

Martha Ake Brouse
D'Arcy Atwater Perry
Frances Baker Owen
Alice Benet Hopkins
Elisc Bowen Mullins
Lmily Buwen Muller
Glonana Burrill Walker
Lillian Cabell Gay
Mary Virginia Camp Smith
Margaret Campbell Usher
Myra Carr Baldwin
Betty Cocke Winfree
Lucile Cox

Mar>- CfH Sinclair
NaiKv Dicki Blanton
Kaihle«n Donohue McCormack
Connnc Fentress Gray
K.athr>n Ferson Barrett
tlizaNcih Fessfr \lacLca\
Jane Fo.x Dodson
Eleanor FranciMo Hi>od
Chioc Frterion horx
Caroline Furniss \Sotfe
Ruth Gilham \ iar
Parker Cc^^J**in Breen
Jeanne CranJeman Losee
Frances Gnegor>
Marjorie Gnf/tn Caskey
Capel Gnme!, Cierlach
Annette Horlev Chappcll
Elizabeth Hartndge
Martha Harvev G^inn
Mary Hesion Pettyjohn
Sara High Gregg
Ons^a Hoi Jen Perry
Margaret Huxiey Dick
Lois Leayiii Franks
Abigil i^jn/fik-Leibowilz
Margaret Lloyd Bush
Dorothea McClure Mountain
Alma Martin Rotncm
Catherine Miichell Ravcnscroft
Jane \foorr Johnson
Elizabeth Morton Forsyth
Betty Muggleton Patterson
Katharine .\iles Parker
Esther O'Br'tan Robinson
Nanc> Parsons Jones -
Logan Fhinizv Johns
Phoebe pierson Dunn
Mary PoinJexier W illingham
Marquan Powell Doty
Mar> Rich Wiles
Doris Risk Curw.cn
Margaret Robertson Densmore
Ruth Robinson Marshall
\ irginia Ruiiv Anstice
Jane Shelton Bowers
Marion Sim Reid
\!argaret Smith Thomasson
Lillian Steele Cook
June Stein Cooley
Mar\lina Stokes Fulton
Atine Stump Cook
Arnold Susonf; Jones
Willieita Thompson Scofield
Mar\ Elizabeth Troy
Maria Gray Valentine Curtis
Jean Walker Blalock
Elizabeth Wail Saunders
Constance Warner McElhinne>-
Lydia Warner Kanhofer
Annette Weiss Beyer
Harriet Williams Cook
Martha Williams Tim
Carhe Young Gilchrist

1937

Agent:

Barbara Lee Jar\is

Elizabeth Ball Fensom
Janet Bogue Trimble
Mary Jane Carnev Turner
Jaquelin Cochran Nicholson
Margaret Cornwell Schmidt
Agnes Crawford Bates
Margerj- Cruikshank Dyer
Rebecca Douglass Mapp
Mary Frueau/f Klein
Faith Cort Hcrpers
Mar\ Gruber Stoddart
Rosalie Hall Hursi
Martha Harde^iv Minshall
\ irginia Hardin
Margaret Hite Palmer
Margaret Holcomb MacMillan
Natalie Hopkins Gnggs
Barbara Jar\is
Frances yo>i/iio/i Finley
Frances Kemp Pettyjohn
Lillian Lambert Pennington
Mary Lambeth Blackvwelt
Anne Lauman Busse\
Elizabeth Lee McPhail
Mancn Leggeit Gates
Anne Lemmon Johnson
Margaret MacRae Jackson
Margaret Mernii Haskell
Barbara Munn Green
Nanc> \aJle Lea
Kitt> O'Brien Joyner
Isabel Olmsiead Ha>nes
Doroth\ price Roberts
Doroth\ Proui Gorsuch
Flelen Rar Stebbins
Jessie Rose Har^ m
Margaret SanJiJgr Mason
Elkn SnoJgruis Park
Dorothy Stefan
Elizabeth Thomas Wells
Marie Walker Gregory
Elinor Ward Francis
Betty Williams Allison
Helen Williamson Dumont
Eleanor Wright Beane

1938

Agent:

Janet Mac/artan Bergmann

Helen Allen Slupp
Frances Bailey Brooke
Louise Bailey Kane
Jane Bemi^ \\ ills
Ethlvn BieJenharn Swayzc
Elizabeth Bowtey Phillips
Marion Brown Zaiser
Florence Caven Crosnoc
Man. Cobb Hulse
Kitty Corbt-tt Powell
Frances Cordes Hoffman
Harriet Daniel Herd
Barbara Derr Chenoweth
Justine DomAo//' Wright
Virginia Eady Williams
Frances Faulkner Mathews
Barbara Ferguson Lincoln
Barbara Fish Schiebel
Janet Forbush Fcad
Marion Fuller Kellogg
Bessie Lee Garble Siegrist
Katherine Gardner Stevenson
Mildred Gill Williamson
Dorothy Gipe Clement
Lucille Greene Michel
Luc> Gregory Marrow
Llewellyn G/-//m A Longstaff
Mary Hamilton Schuck
Josephine Happ Willingham
Shirley Haywood Alexander
\ irginia Heifer Hickentooper
Helen Hesson Binns
Katherine Hoyt
Cecily Jansen Kendrick
Jane Kent Titus
Elizabeth King
Rebecca Kunkle Hogue
Adele Letcher Har\ey
Nancy McCandlish P'nchard
Janet MacFarlan Bergmann
Genevie\e Marsh Fisher
Eylese Miller Latham
Marjorie Miller Hein
Vesta Murray Haselden
Dorothy \icholson Tate
Anne Old Mercer
Carolyn Potter Echols
Edwine Schmid Mill
Lucile Sergeant Leonard
Jessie Silvers BenrKtt
Betty Meade Smani Johnson
Jane Stevens Stanly
Kate Sulzberger Le\ i
Molly Talcott Dodson
Lucy Taliaferro Nickerson
Marjorie Thaden Davis
Dorothy Tison Campbell
Ida Todman Pierce
Sarah Tomlinson Foscue
Maud Tucker Drane
Annie Rose Wallace Buchman
Janice Wiley Adams
Lillian Williams Gr>mes
Elinor Wilson Gammon
Lucy Winston Works
Pauline Womack Swan
Moselle Worsley Fletcher

1939

Clarice Baiiey Robmson

Florence Bailey Adams

Patricia Bah Vincent

Mary Elizabeth Barge Schroder

Sarah Belk Gambrell

Bettina Bell Wyman

Anne Benedict Swain

Leila Bond Preston

Ethel Bowen Glenn

Lucy Bowers Elebash

Elizabeth Campbell Gawthrop

Eleanor Claflin Williams

Louise Corrigan Jordan

Charlotte Dunn Blair

Betsy Durham Goodhue

Anna Espach Weckler

Martha Fowler McNabb

Betty Frazier Rinehart

Martha Fuller Le\-s

Nancy Gatch Svien

Ellen George Frampton

Lucy Gordon Jeffers

\alerie Goii Murphey

Ruth Harman Keiser

Anne Lee Harrison Brown

Ethel Hauber Crowe

Mardic Hodill Smith

Anne Huddleston Cheek

\ iola James Walhen

Mar> Judd Patton

Ka> Kleberg ^ar borough

Catherine Lawder Stephenson

^ vonne Legeeit Dyer

Eleanor Liitie Morfit

Elizabeth Lo\e

GractN Luiktii Stoddard
HclenMi Crrcrv James
\tar> Mackintosh Shcrcr
Marion Mann Hawkes
Mary Milnor Deland
Henrielte Minor Hart
Lee Montague Watts
Jean Moore \ on Sternberg
Marguerite Mvers Glenn
Lillian Seely Willis
Jean Oliver Sartor
Jane Parker Washburn
Ann Parks

Elizabeth Perkins Proihro
Julia Ridgely Peacock
Gertrude Robertson Midlen
Grace Robinson NIcGuire
Augusta Saul Edwards
Julia Saunders Mtchaux
Mar> Lou Simpson Bulkley
Mar\ Spear Rooney
Janet Thorpe
Phyllis Todd Ellis
Marv* Treadwav Downs
Janet Trosch Moulton
Elizabeth Vanderbilt Brown
Eleanor V'andruff Dawson
Mar> Welles Pearson
Julia Worihington Lombard

1940

Agent:

Reba Smith Gromel
Ann Adamson Passano
Man." Barnhardt Calder
Muriel Barrows Neall
Rosemar\ Bjorge Johnson
Eleanor Bos^orih Spitler
Adelaide Bo:e Glascock
Blair Bunting Both
Jane Burnett Hill
Anne Burr McDermott
Maria Burroughs Livingston
Jane Bush Long
Clara Call Frazier
Joy Carter Carrington
Cornelia Chalkley Kitiler
Anne Conant Weaver
Elizabeth Conover Nuttle
Anne Cooke Gilliam
Helen Cornwell Jones
Connie Currie Fleming
Ann Dawson Highsmith
Laura Dickie Neil
Margaret Dowell Cochran
Kathehrte Estes Johnston
Lois Fernley McNeil
Alice Gass Domberger
Emorv Gill Williams
Elizabeth Gockley McLellan
Barbara Godfrey
Ruth Goodwin Duke
Jane Goolrick N!urrell
Betty Hammer Morrell
Nancy Haskins Elliot
Georgia Herbert Hart
Alverta Hill Thompson
Jane Hopkins Hanes
Elizabeth Ivins Haskins
Coralie Kahn Ferro
Carrington Lancaster Pasco
Clara MacRae Causey
Sarah Mayo Sohn
Ruth Mealand Schwartz
Florence Merrill Pilkinton
Mildred Miichell Gillis
Mildred Moon Montague
Shirley Nalley Irving
Cynthia Soland > oung
Helen Patton Wright
Marion Phmizy Jones
Polly Poe Richmond
Hortense Powell Cooper
Louise Pugh Worthing
Martha Rector McGee
Margaret Robinson Lewis
Margaret Royal Davis
Janet Runkle Wells
Clara Sasscer Chandler
Helen Schmid Hardy
Jacqueline Sexton Daley
Arline Simmen MacArthur
Ann Sims

Estelle Stnclaire Farrar
Barbara Smith Whitlock
Reba Smith Gromel
Eleanor Snow Lea
Agnes Spencer Burke
Ramona Spurlock Fite
Hazel Sierreti Allen
Marjorie Stock Clemens
Helen Taylor
Josephine Tavlor Carlson
Elisabeth Thomas Mason
Nida Tomlin Watts
Margaret \allance
Irene Vongehr Vincent
Kathleen Ward Allen
Anne Waring Lane
Evelyn Williams Turnbull
Margaret Woodward Thomas

1941

Agent:

Joan Myers Cole

Margaret Anderion Dortch

Allen Bagby Macnei!

Frances Baldwin Whitakcr

Elizabeth Blount Kempson

Anne Borough O'Connor

Linda Bovle Richardson

Lillian Breedlove White

Martha Brooks Miller

Elizabeth Brown-Serman MacRae

Evelyn Cantey Marion

Angela Betty Cardamone O'Donnell

Helen Carmine Thompson

Wilma Caveii Alley

Frances Chichester Hull

Jane Clark Hartrick

Elizabeth Colley Shelton

Margaret Craighill price

Marion Dailev Avery

Eleanor Damgard Firth

Charlotte Davenport Tuttle

Judith Davidson Walker

Shirley Devine Clemens

Joan DeVore Roth

Adela Diaz Eads

Betty Doucett Neill

Louise Duff Maverick

Patricia Eaglesf'ield Kirchhoffer

Sarah Esler Walters

Katherine Estes

Bette Fawceit Collier

Lillian Fowlkes Taylor

Mane Ga/fnev Barr>-

Anne Gavle O'Beime

Decca Gilmer Frackelton

Ethel Gurney Beiz

Helen Gwinn Wallace

Carolyn Hagen Mj-ers

Helen Hamilton Lewis

Josephine Harlan Darby

Ruth Hemphill DeBuys

Emory Hill Rex

Barbara Holman W'hilcomb

Doris Huner Swiech

Louise Kirk Edwards

Elizabeth Lancaster Washburn

Louise Lembeck Reydcl

Helen Littleton Hauslein

Lucy Lloyd Osgood

Jarw Loveland Byerts

Anita Loving Lewis

Alpine Martin Patterson

Joan Meacham Gay

Alice Meeds Flaherty

Farley Moody Galbraith

Joan Myers Cole

Lucy P'arton Miller

Emmie Phillips Lohmcycr

Ann Pickard McCarr>'

Olivia Rhodes Woodin

Maxine Robison Harrison

Jean Ruggles Smith

Edna Schomaker Packard

Mary Scully Olney

Laetitia Setbels Frothingham

Shirley Shaw Daniel

Anne Smith Clow

Patricia Sorensen Ackard

Margaret Tomlin Graves

Betsy Tower Bennett

Edith Vongehr Bridges

Jean Walker Robinson

Helen Watson Hill

Marion Webb Shaw

Anna Whitaker Bartel

Dorothv While Cummings

Mao White Miller

Frances Wilson Dowdey

Margaret Stuart Wilson Dickey

Mary Worihington Foster

W'ilnrw Zetsler Lee

1942

Cynthia Abbott Dougheny
Florence Baglev Witt
Anne Barrett Ceorge
Mar> Alice Bennett Dorrancc
Frances Boynton Drake
Edith Brainerd Walter
Grace Bugg Muller-Thym
Eugenia Burnett Affel
Jeanne Buzby Runkle
Frances Caldwell Harris
Lucy Call Dabne>
Sudic Clark Hanger
Katherine Coggins Clark
Catherine Coleman
Margaret Cunningham Allen
Janana Darby CranHeld
Catherine Diggs Orr
Elizabeth Dunn
Eloise English Davies
Margaret Gearing Wickham
Betsy Gilmer Tremain
Nancy Coldbarth Glaser
Elizabeth Hanger LippirKOtt

Louise Honnock Gcrsien
Shirley Houseman Nordhem
Ann Hauslein Pottcrfield
Ruih Hemley Camblos
Janet Houston Davies
Sally Jackion Mead
Rulh Jacquoi Tempest
Nancy Kegley Jenkins
Alice King Harrison
Cirace Lanier Brewer
tlizabeth Lewis Lewis
Dorothy Malone Vates
F-rances Meek Temple
Irene Mitchell Moore
Ann Morrison Reams
Joanne Oberkinh Willis
Doris Ogden Mount
Mary Pierson Fischer
Margaret Preston Newton
tlcanor Rini;cr Linn
Barbara Riniey Furniss
Helen Sanford
Sally SchuH Van Allen
Phyilis Sherman Barnes
Diana Stout Allen
Alice Swenev Weed
tdna 5viAw Peltier
Jane Taylor Lowell
Mary Ellen Thompson Beach
Margaret Trouiman Harbin
Mary Wheat Crowell
Alice Williams Mighell
Deborah Wood Davis
Douglas Woods Sprunt

1943

BcilV Si.hnu

Nelson

Sarah Adams Bush

Margaret Baker Kahin

Brooks Barnes

Nancy Bean White

Betty Blackmer Childs

Barbara Bolles Miller

Polly Boswell Fosdick

Catharine Bracher O'Connell

Betty Brown Logas

Dorothy Campbell Scribner

Mary Christian Mulligan

Katherine Doar Jones

[>eborah Douglas Adams

Clare Eager Matthai

Eloise Ellis Simons

Rosclle Faulconer Scales

Mary Ferguson Sanders

Janice Fitzgerald Wellons

Annabelle Forsch Prager

Dorothy Friday

Muriel Gr\'mes

Jane Hardy Harris

Rozelia Hazard Potter

Pauline Hudson Brown

Marguerite Hume

Ann Jacobs Pakradooni

Nancy Jameson Glass

Esther Jeti Holland

Chesley Johnson Dale

Primrose Johnston Craven

\'a\eric Jones Materne

Bonilee Kev Garrett

Lucy Kiker Jones

Karen Kniskern White

Mary Lampion Middleton

Betty Launder Butin

Mary Law Taylor

Helen Lawton Mitchell

Betty Leighion Lane

Dorothy Long Cousins

Elsie McCarihv Samson

Fayette McDowell Willett

Anne McJunkin Briber

Nancy McVav Marstcller

Fay Martin Chandler

Caroline Miller McClintock

Anne Mitchell Albyn

Elizabeth Munce Weis

Karen Norris Sibley

Anne Noves Awirey

Leiitia Qrd Elliott

Merriam Sands Packard Hubbard

Catherine Parker Silverman

Nancy Pingree Drake

Betty Braxton Preston

Harriet Pullen Phillips

Patricia Pohineau McCulloch

Peggy Roudin Foster

Page Ruth Foster

Elizabeth Schrneisser Nelson

Elizabeth Shepherd Scott

Effic Siegling Bowers

Byrd Smith Hunter

May Smith Burgess

Judith Snow Bcnoii

Harriet Swenson Munschaucr

Margaret Swindell Dickerman

Carol Tanner Cover

Frcdda Turner Durham

Lli/abcth Weems Solomon

Mary Wheeler Milliard

\ irgmia While Brinton

Louise Wo(>*yruj(/ A ngst

Barbara Wrighi Vctterlein

Gloria Zick Sigars

1944

Agent:

Mary Jane Brock

Muriel Abrash Sal?berg

Jean Blanton Siehl

Norma Bradley Arnold

Marguerite Brend/inger Robinson

Mildred Brenizer Lucas

Mary Jane Brock

Connie Budlong Myrick

Helen Caniey Woodbridgc

Lucilc Christmas Brewster

Barbara Clark Utiey

Manha Clarke Peach

Helen Crump Cutler

Dorothy Denny Sutton

Barbara buncombe Lang

Ellen Duval Miller

Margaret Eggers Perry

Martha Folk Valler>

Hazel Fellner Tultle

Eleanor Coodspeed Abbott

Helen Gravati Watt

Virginia Griffith Morion

Betty Haverty Smith

Sloan Hawkins Ward

Alice Hepburn Puleston

Leslie Herrick Danford

Frances Hester Dornette

Martha Hoffman McCoy

Sarah Hollerith Nietsch

Sydney Holmes Bales

Alice Johnson Fessenden

Alice Lancaster Buck

Martha Lindsey Barton

Anita Lippiit Clay

Mildred Liitleford Camm

Paulett Long Taggart

Frances Longino Schroder

Lucy Love Elmer

Hannah Mallory Perkins

Ann Moore Remington

Carlisle Morrisseti Branch

Virginia /Moves Pillsbury

Ruth O'Keefe Kennedy

Frances Pet lit O'Halloran

Elizabeth Pierce Oliver

Evelyn Pre/low Ormiston

Jane Rice McPherson

Murrell Rickards Patrick

Martha Rugelev Bachman

Sally Skinner Behnke

Louise Smith Norton

Patricia Slickney

Phyllis Tennev Dowd

Catherine Tifi Porter

Dorothy Tobin Ayres

Elisabeth Vaughan Bishop

Mar>' Walker Van de Water

Cecile Waterman Essrig

Virginia Watts Fournier

Patricia Whiiaker Waters

Emily Wilkins Mason

Marjorie Willeits Maiden

Elizabeth Williams Meyer

Anne Woods Guzzardi

1945

Agent:

Martha Holion Glesser

Kathryn Agee Atkins
Sadie Allen Blackburn
Elizabeth Avery Duff
Leila Barnes Cheatham
Virginia Berrier
Audrey Betts
Frances Bickers Pinnell
Ann Bower Cribbs
Doreen Brugger Wetzig
Leila Burnett Felkcr
Mildred Carolhers Hcaly
Patricia Carr Bowie
Wyline Chapman Sayler
Anna Chidesier Heywood
Jerry Cornell Means
Carol Co.x MacKinnon
Esther Cunningham Shay
Helen Davts Wohlers
Van Meter deButis Page
Evelyn Dillard Grones
Alice Edwards Davenport
Margot Enright Aghntdes
Elizabeth Erwin Dcnniston
Elenc Essarv Gill
Eugenia Etheridge Falk
Kathryn Fr\e Hemphill
Isabel Cavford Thompson
Alice Gearhart Stinson
tdith Pace Gill Brcakell
Ellen Gilliam Perry
Ann Gladney Gibson
Ruth Hall Pcckham
Mary Haskins King
Harriet Hazen Schmoeller
Betty Hcaly Cutler
Mia Hecht Morgan
Marv Herbert Tavlor
Elisa'bcth Hicks Pollak
Martha Holion Glesser
Margaret Jones Wyllic
Mary King Oehmig

Mary Kritser Miller
Antoinette LeBris Maynard
Sarah Leffen Macfarlanc
Joyce Livermore Foust
Rulh Longmire Wagner
Mary Love Orth
Jane McJunkin Huffman
Edith Matiison Henderson
Frances Mation Williams
Julia Mills Jact^ibsen
Joanne Morgan Hartman
Rosemary Newby Mullen
Alice Nicholson McMvaine
Caroline Parnsh Seager
Catherine Price Bass
Ann Richey Oliver
Jean Ridler Fahrenbach
Jane Spiegel Eakin
Margaret Swann Norris
Cynthia Thompson Cowger
Mary Traugoti Brown
Lile Tucker Bell
Beverly Turner McDonald
Anne Carter Walker Somervjlle
Virginia Whiiaker Shelton
Harriet Willcox Gearhart
Elizabeth Zulick Reuter

1946

Ayt-ni.

Nancy Dowd Burton

Patricia Arms Brown
Rosemary Ashby Dashiell
Betty Ann BoJi Norris
Betsy Bowman Townsend
Katherine Brooks Augustine
Bowdre Budd Poer
Dorothy Caldwell Crowell
Flo Cameron Kampmann
Ruth Carroll Gibson
Jean Carter Telford
Marjorie Christian Schley
Elinor Clement Littleton
Margaret Coffman Smith
Carroll Cone Cozart
Carolyn Conley Danley
Dorothy Corcoran Hartzcr
Louise Crawford Moorefield
Joan Darby West
Beatrice £)ingwell Loos
Nancy Dowd Burton
Ruth Drubych Zimmerman
Marguerite Emmert Baldwin
Cornelia English Monthan
Alice Eubarik Burke
Mary Wallis Evans Landrum
Leila Fellner Lenagh
Crutcher Field Harrison
Elizabeth Fruii Metzenthin
Helen Graeff
Noma Greene Satlerfield
Elizabeth Gurley Hewson
Marilyn Hannah Crocker
Anne Hill Edwards
Mary Holland Hardin
Mary Holion EfRer
Barbara Hood Sprunt
Ruth Houston Jarvis
Harriet Inge Fillmore
A\deline Jones Voorhees
Ariana Jones Wittke
Lucy Jones Bendall
Shields Jones Harris
Jennie Keeling Mansfield
Alice Kennedy Necl
Mary Elizabeth Kent Page
Bertha Lee Batley
Marj Lively Hoffman
Jean Love Albert
Patricia Luke B.yden
Elisabeth McKeown Scott
Mary Madison Henderson
Marilyn Mandle Dick
Helen Murchison Lane
Eleanor Myers Cole
Gloria Sadler Knight
Clara Nicol Moore
Hallie Tom Nixon Powell
Anne Owens Mueller
Jeanne Parham Coors
Jane Pickens Church
Beverley Randolph Knight
Jane Richardson Vieth
Ellen Rohbins Red
Juliette Rollins Napier
Caroline Rudulph Sellers
Nancy Sanders Starr
Grace Schoenheit Metz
Margo Sibley Lewis
Bett> Sirnmons Lynch
Catherine Sman Grier
Charlotte Sprunt Nturchison
Lee Stevens GraveU
Jessie Strickland tictxk
Anne Siuckle Houston
Eden Taylor Persons
Mar>' Taylor Hollowell
Ellen Thackray Wilson
Josephine Thomas Collins
Legarc Thompson Robertson
Margaret Todd Fanning
Polly Vandeventer Saunders
Mary* ymion Fleming
Nanc> Wane Ward
Barbara Warner

Wistar Walts King
Lillian Wen Parrott
Louise Wilhourne Collier
Virginia Wynn
Edwina Young Call

(g^ ' 1947

A gen I :

Lois Ripley Davcy

Nancy Alexander Blantfy

Virginia Barron Summer

Cynthia Bemiss Stuart

Eleanor Bos worth Shannon

Marna Bromberg W illtams

Judith Burnett Halsey

Elizabeth Caldwell

Susan van Cleve Riehl

Eunice Coc

Ann Colston Leonard

Lucinda Converse Ash

Eleanor Crumrine Stewart

Elaine Davis Blackford

Aimee Des /*/an(/ Gibbons

Jean Ferrier Ramsay

Catherine Fitzgerald Booker

Bettie Golden Tyler

Shirley Gunter RatlifT

Nan Hart Stone

Sara Cecil Herr Perr>

Betty Hoehn Beeson

Betty Holloway Harmon

Mary Hudgin's Rice

\ irgtnia lliges Norman

Alice Joseph Davis

Anne Kleeman Sites

Elizabeth Knapp Herbert

Cordelia Lambert Stites

Mary Jane Land Cleveland

Shirley Levis Johnson

Anne Lile Bowden

Joan McCoy Edmonds

Mary McDuffie Redmond

Sara Ann McMullcn Lindsey

Ann Marshall Whitley

Suzette Morion Sorenson

Katherine Munter Derr

Jean Old

Dale P/7/oM Kirkman

Gene Ray Minor

Margaret Redfern

Elizabeth Ripley Davey

Margaret Robertson Christian

Inez Rosamond Boone

Virgmia Shackelford Poindexter

Meredith Slane Finch

Martha Smith Smith

Maria Tucker Bowerfind

Frances Vlmer Conley

Trudv Vars Harris

Mar>' Lib Vick Thornhill

Virginia Walker Christian

Anne Webb Moses

Elizabeth Weil Fisher

Margaret Ellen White Van Buren

Isabel Zulick Rhoads

1948

Agent:

Betsy plunkeit Williams

Margaret Addington Twohy
Mary Jo Armstrong Berrvman
Beatrice Backer Simpson
Mary Barrett Robertvon
Katherine Berthier McKelway
Julia Blakey Brown
Harnotie Bland Coke
Manon Bower Harrison
Elizat^eth Bramham Lee
Annabcll Brock Badrow
Bcii> Lou Bruion Lyons
Alice Butman Bellows
Patricia Damron Joy
Martha Davis Barnes
Sara Davis Spencer
Louise Del'ore Towerji
Catharine Doolin Dickey
Closcy Faulkner Dickey
Ardis Fratus MacBride
Martha Frye Terry
Martha Garrison Anness
Elizabeth Ciibson
Patricia Goldin Harrsch
Blair Graves Smith
Elizabeth Gra\es Perkinson
Constance Hanccnrk CjClman
Caroline Haskell Simpst^n
McCall Henderson Re\ercomb
Allen Hobbs C apps
Carolyn Irvine Forbes
Beltv '\nn Jackson R>an
Patricia Jennei Ntelscn
Jane Johnson Kent
Diane King Nelson
Tempe Kv\er Adams
Betty I effel W ingaie
Lima /.t?i- Hartmann
Indiana LmJsav BiliNolv
Mars LIo>d

Mavdc t.udington Hennmgscn
Mary Jane Luke
\^\c Mi Arthur r*»dd

Helen McKemie Riddle
Martha Mansfield Clement
Faith Maitison
Jeanne Morrcll Garlington
Nancy Moses Eubanks
Josephine f^eal Peregrine
Ann Orr Savage
Martha Owen Thatcher
Anne Paxion Gail
Sarah Pearrc
Virginia Pekor Culpepper
Judith Perkins Llewellyn
Margaret Ann Pierce McAvity
Elizabeth Plunken Williams
Ann Porter Mullen
Eleanor Potts Snodgrass
Bess Pratt Wallace
Caroline Rankin Mapother
Anne Ryland Ricks
Frances Robb
Ann Rowland TyicV.
Ann Samford Upchurch
Sylvia Schively Robertshaw
Joyce Sentner Daly
Peggy Sheffield Martin
Virginia Skeppstrom Ctine
Martha Skinner Logan
Patricia Smith Nelson
Sally Smith Williams
Nancy Snider Martin
Nancy Stcptoe McKinley
Wayne Stokes Goodall
Ruth Street Ide
Elinor Taylor Hough
Jane Taylor \\
Patricia Traugott Rixey
Constance Tunneil Bond
Catherine Vance Johns
Anne Vaushn Kelly
Betty Wallace Tenney
Cornelia Wattlcy
Elisabeth White Gregory
Elvira Whitehead Morse
Virginia Wurzbach Vardy
Ceciley Youmans Collins

Agent:

Carolyn Cannady Evans
Lisbeth Abrams Bardin
Carolyn Aubrey Humphries
Sally Ayres Shroyer
Julia Baldwin Waxter
Catherine Barnett Brown
Joan Becker Taylor
Elizabeth Blair Gosling
Dorothy Bottom Gilkey
Mary Brown Ballard
Patricia Brown Boyer
Kathleen Bryan Edwards
Anne Bush Train
Carolyn Cannady Evans
Deborah Carro// Ziegler
Caroline Casey McGehee
Lindsay Coon Robinson
Susan Corning Whitla
Catherine Co.x Reynolds
Margaret Cromwell Tipper
Alice Dahm

Patricia Davin Robinson"
Elizabeth Dershuck Gay
Ann Doar Jones
Alice Dulaney Sheridan
Fredda Duncombe Millard
June Eager Finney
Julia Easley Mak
Ann Eustil Weimer
Anne Fiery Bryan
Marcia Fowler Smiley
Ruth Garrett Preucel
Zola Garrison Ware
Sarah Gay Lanford
Goode (jeer DiRaddo
Mary Grigsby Malletl
Catherine Hardwick Efird
Ann Henderson Bannard
Preston Hodges Hill
Ann-Barrett Holmes Bryan
Roselise Holmes Wilkinson
Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough
Jacquclin Jacobs Buttram
Joan Johnston Yinger
Margaret Jones Keenan
Nancy yon« Worcester
Nancy Lake

Margaret Lawrence Bowers
Sallie Legg De Marline
Patricia Levin Barnett
Joan McCarthy Whiieman
Vidmer Megginson Ellis
Sarah Metcner Jarvis
Marie Musgrove Pierce
Polly Plummer Mackie
Frances Pope Evans
Margaret Quynn Mapies
Ellen Ramsay Clark
Barbara Sloan Pearsall
Donna Siemens Cowdery
Mary Stevens Webb
Elizabeth Strickland Wright
Jaclyn Tappen Kern
Jean Taylor

Margaret Towers Talman
Alice Trout Hagan
Elizabeth Truehean Harris
Carter VanDevinier Slalery

Katharine Veasey Goodwin
Dorothy Wallace Wood
Elizabeth Wellford Bennett
Lucie Wood Saunders

Agent:

Marilyn Ackerson Barker

Caroline Bailey Fritzinger
Beverly Benson Seamans
Mary Waller Berkeley Ferguson
Sally Bianchi Foster
Edith Brooke Robertson
Catharine Clark Rasmussen
Frances Cone Klrkpatrick
Margaret Craig Sanders
Mary Davis Gettel
Diana Dent

Elisabeth Elmore Gilteland
Anne Esiill Campbell
Barbara Favill Marshall
Marilyn Fisher Hanford
Julia Freels Chwalik
Deborah Freeman Cooper
Mary Morris Gamble Booth
Joan Gulick Grant
Patricia Halleran Salvador!
Anne Hubert Carey
Mary Lanman Brown
Kay Leroy Wing
Fanchon Lewis Jackson
Margaret Lewis Furse
Joan Livingston McFall
Bonnie Loyd Crane
Virginia Luscombe Rogers
Frances Marr Dillard
Frances Martin Lindsay
Helen Missires Lorenz
Louise Moore
Cora Morningstar Spiller
Jane Munnerlyn Carter
Margaret Murchison Corse
Nancy Nelson Swiggett
Virginia Page Carter
Jean Probeck Wiant
Mary Dame Stubbs Broad
Elizabeth Todd Landen
Susan Tucker Yankee
Carolyn Tynes Cowan
Agnes Veach Brooks
Elizabeth White Bradley
Marianne Williams Sizer
Dorothy Wood Letts
Evelyn Woods Cox

Agent:

Carol Rolston Toulmin

Annette Aitken McRoberts
Myrtle Alston Mott
Sally Anderson Blalock
Catherine Arp Waterman
Rosalie Barringer Wornham
Patricia Barton
Barbara Bauman Robinson
Ann Benet Yellott
Elizabeth Brawner Bingham
Audrey Breitinger Lauer
Doris Brody Rosen
Janet Brornan Crane
Nancy Brumback Kruvand
Nancy Butierworth Palme-
Joan Cansler Marshall
Patricia Carlin Selvage
Margaret Chisholm
Ruth Clarkson KentHeld
Louise Coleman Jones
Carla deCreny Levin
Betty Crisler Buchignani
Margery Davidson Rucker
Jean Duerson Bade
Eugenia Ellis Mason
Wingfield Ellis
Mary Jane Eriksen Ertman
Rodes Esiill Coleman
Terry Faulkner Phillips
Ada French McWane
Mary Jane French Halliday
Nedra Greer Stimpson
Barbara Hahn Smith
St. Claire Hayden D'Wolf
Ann Kilpatrick Webster
Joan Kuehnle Kaufman
Barbara Lasier Edgerly
Seymour Laughon Rennolds
Suzanne Lockley Glad
Patricia Lynas Ford
Ruth Magee Peterson
Dorothy Marks Herbruck
Julie Micou Eastwood
Jane Moorefield
Ann Mountcastle Gamble
Ruth Oddy Meyer
Susan Ostrander Hood
Mary Pease Fleming
Nancy Pesek Rasenberger
Ann Petesch Hazzard
Jean Randolph Bruns
Ursula Reimer VanAnda
Diane Richmond Simpson
Carol Rolston Toulmin
Carolyn Sample Abshire

Mary Semple Riis

Anne Sinsneimer

Joan St. John Curtner

Martha Staley %xn\\\\

Mary Street Montague

Sue Taylor Lilley

Joan Vail Thornc

Ann Van Norden McDuffie

Angie Vaughan Halliday

Joanne Williams Ray

Mona Wilson Beard

1952

Agent:

Nancy Hamel Clark

Sallie Anderson Jones
Katharine Babcock Mountcastle
Mary Bailey Izard
Barbara Baker Bird
Suzanne Bassewitz Shapiro
Patricia Beach Thompson
Edith Bell Burr
Carolyn Black Underwood
Leila Booth Morris
Mary Boyd Ronald
Jean Caldwell Marchant
Jane Carter Ogburn
Sara Clay Vance
Grace DeLong Einsel
Ginger Dreyfus Gravin
Mary Ely Smith
Sally Fishburn Fulton
Florence Fitch Patton
Mary Ford Gilchrist
Anne Forster Dooley
Cynthia Fowle
Anna Garst Strickland
Sally Miller Gearhart
Mary Byrd Gesler Hanson
Nancy Hamel Clark
Bette Jane Harcourt Drake
Keir Henley Donaldson
Holly Hillds Hammonds
Anne Hoagland Plumb
Susan Hobson McCord
Joanne Holbrook Patton
Louise Kelly Pumpelly
Nancy Laemmel Hartmann
Evelyn Lane Fozzard
Patricia Layne Winks
Martha Leeg Kalz
Mary Leith Rutrough
Marjorie Levine Abrams
Barbara McCullough Gilbert
Robbin McGarry Ramey
Jane Mattas Christian
Gabrielle Maupin Bielenslein
Nancy Messick Ray
Mary Miller Carroll
Margaret Moore Ripley
Martha Ann Moore
Carroll Morgan Legge
Betty Mundy Littrell
Margaret Anne Nelson Harding
Joanne O'Malley Pleasants
Nell Orand Lynch
Benita Phinizy Johnson
Polly Plumb deButts
Laura Radford Goley
Jane Ramsey Olmsted
Jacqueline Razook Chamandy
Donna Robinson Cart
Jane Roseberry Ewald
Patricia Ruppert Flanders
Jane Russo Sheehan
Sarah Sadler Lovelace
Alice Sanders Marvin
Josephine Sharp Pargellis
Joan Sharpe Metzinger
Virginia Sheaff Liddel
Charlotte Snead Stifel
Alice Stansbury White
Joan Stewart Rank
Frances Street Smith
Harriet Thayer Elder
Nancy Trask Wood
Ann Trumbore Ream
Marianne Vorys Minister
Grace Wallace Brown
Louise Warfield Stump
Pauline Wells Bolton
Ann Whittingham Smith
Elizabeth Wilder Cady
Catherine Yerkes Grant
Rebecca Yerkes Rogers
Sandra Zelie Mulinos

1953

Agent:

Mary Siagg Hambleti

Kalherine Amsden
Donna Anderson Mullens
June Arata Pickett
Joan Arev Harrison
Kathleen Bailey Nager
Betty Behlen Strother
Betty Benlsen Winn
Joan Brophy Tyree
Barbara Buxton Waugh
Olivia Cantey Patton
Mary Cave
Anne Clark Gildea

Jane Dawson Mudwilder
Virginia Dunlap Shelton
Anne Elliott Caskie
Jean Felty Kenny
Dorothea Fuller
Margaret Graves McClung
Anne Green Stone
Katherine Guerrant Fields
Janet Hamilburg Carter
Eleanor Hirsch Baer
Harrietie Hodges Andrews
Virginia Hudson
Dale Hutter Harris
Sara Ironmonger Greer
Virginia Jago Elder
Eleanor yonnson Ashby
Anne Joyce
Lynne Kerwin Byron
Mary Kimball Grier
Ann Lackey
Ann Leonard Hodges
Nan Locke Rosa
Jacqueline Lowe Young
Nancy McDonald
Janet Martin Birney
Mary Ann Mellen Root
Elizabeth Mertz Barton
Caroline Miller Ewing
Caroline Moody Roberts
Cynthia Moorfiead McNair
Nancy Ortf Jackson
Joanna Parks Husovsky
Betsy Parrolt McMurry
Jane Perry Liles
Anne Phelps Gorman
Patsy Phillips Brown
Shirley Rankin Dumesnil
Virginia Robb
Ann Saunders Miller
Joan Sexton Jones
Polly Sloan Shoemaker
Mary Stagg Hamblett
Virginia Timmons Ludwick
Carolyn Tolberi Smith
Alice Trilch McClements
Kirkland Tucker Clarkson
Sarah Turner Mears
Ann Vlerebome Sorcnson
Elisabeth Wallace Hartman
Josephine Wells Rodgers
Constance Werly Wakelee
Courtney Willa'rd Conger
Jane Yoe Wood

5 1954

Agent:

Jean Gillespie Walker

Anne Allen Pflugfeldcr
Page Anderson Hungerpiller
Magdalen Andrews Poff
Joan Anson Hurwit
Loui^ Aubrey McFarland
Susan Bassett Finnegan
Joy Bennett Hartshorn
Jayne Berguido Abbott
Doreen Booth Hamilton
Virginia Bramlett Lowrance
Louise Brandes Abdullah
Scott Brice Griffey
Anne Brooke
Sarah Bumbaugh
Nancy Claire Campbell Zivley
Erlend Carlton McCaffree
Elizabeth Carper Hoffman
Judith Catlin

Joan Chamberlain Engelsman
Barbara Chase Webber
Caroline Chobot Garner
Ann Collins Teachout
Janet Cozari Phillips
Margaret Crowley Talbott
Audrey Darden Wilson
Anne Davis Roane
Margaret Davison Block
Jerry Dreisbach Ludeke
Margaret Ewart Boggs
Ruth Frye Deaton
Sally Gammon Plummer
Jean Gillespie Walker
Ann Henry Lake
Margaret Hetley Peck
Mary Hitchcock Davis
Hattie Hughes Stone
Vaughan Inge Morrissette
DalHs Johnson Jones
Margaret Jones Stewart
Jane Keating Taylor
Margaret Latterhos Smith
Mary Lee McGinnis McClain
Kay McLaughlin Patrick
Jean Manning Morrissey
Barbara Mathews Holley
Ann May Via
Joyce Evelyn Miles Shouse
Virginia Mitchell Frank
Margaret Mohlman
Nancy Paxton Moody
Jean Morris Long
Margaret Morris Powell
Jo Nelson Booze
Mary Hill Noble Day
Rosalie OgHvie Echols
Betty Orr Atkinson
Joy Parker Eldredge
Leta Patton MacNaughton
Barbara Pinnell Pritchard

Joan Potter Bickcl
Faith Rahmer Crokcr
I ranees Reese Peak
Mary Ann Robb
Mary Jane Roos Fenn
Ruih Sanders Smith
Anne She/field Hale
Bctte-Barron Smith Stamats
Beverly Smith Bragg
Helen Smith Lewis
Jeanne Stoddart Barenfls
Ann G. Thomas
Viccoirc Too/ Pierce
Merrill Underwood Barringer
Susan Valier Mulligan
Margaret Van Peenen Grimes
Elinor Vorvs Matchncer
Elizabeth Walker Dykes
Ann Walsh Cahouei
Bruce Watts Krucke
Ann White ConncW
Barbara Wilson Danietl

1955

Agent:

Lydia Plamp Plaiienburg

Helen Addington Passano
Nancy Anderson Shepard
Agnes Burden Sabislon
Kalhryn Beard
Frances Bell Shepherd
Barbara Black Sommer
Gladys Bondurant Lee
Newell Bryan Tozzer
Kathleen Button Ginn
Catherine Cage Mooney
Ruth Campbell VanDerpoel
Nancy Clapp Cudlip
Alice Cleaves Lewis
Carolyn Cooper Gates
Emily Coxe Winburn
Gail Davidson Bazzarre
Jane Dildy Williams
Nancy Douthat Goss
Joan Fankhauser Burrell
Rebecca Faxon Sawtelle
Jane Fellus Welch
Lenora Fiducia Hartmann
Barbara Gar/orth Jackson
Phyllis Gautier Koeppel
Betty Byrne Gill Chaney
Nella Gray Barkley
Ethel Green Banta
Joan Gualiieri Romano
Anne Harrell Welsh
Elizabeth Harrison Austin
Martha Hedeman Buckingham
Phyllis Herndon
Katharine Howe Lovctt
Diane Hunt Lawrence
Emily Hunter Slingtuff
Diane Johnson DeCamp
Jcaneitc Kennedy Hancock
Anne Kilby Gilhuly
Chase Lane Bruns
Sue Lawton Mobley
JarK Lindsey Riddell
Patricia Mc'Clay Boggs
Barbara McLamb Lindemann
Amanda McThenia lodice
Frances Marbury Coxe
Fredcrika Merriman
Mary Murray Trussell
Betty Owens Benziger
Burney Parroii Cleveland
Barbara Plamp Hunt
Lydia Plamp Plattenburg
Elizabeth Rector Keener
Betty San/ord Molsier
Suzanne Schmid
Susan Seward Vick
Mary Reed Simpson Daugett
Mcia Space Moore
EJetsy Stevens Sutton
Metta Sireii Halla
Sally Siroihman Eklund
Shirley Su 1 1 i/f Cooper
Charlotte Taylor Miller
Emily Thompson Gable
Judy Trevor Nettles
Patricia Tucker Turk
Dianne Verney Greenway
Adcte Voorhees Milligan
Elise Wachenfeld de Papp
Andrea Wallace
Margaret West Valentine
Anne Williams Manchester
Camilte Williams Taylor

1956

Agent:

Julia Bates Jackson
Eve Alisheler Jav
Jane Black Clark
Ellen Bordley Gibbs
Carol Breckenridge Dysart
Joan Broman Wright
Pryde Brown McPhce
Anne Carroll Mulholland
Susan Clav Disharoon
Barbara Collis Rodes
Barbara Darnall Clinton
Norma Davis Owen

Carolyn Dickinson Tynes

Virginia Echols Orgain

Nancy Ettinger Minor

Martha Field Carroll

Joan Fisch Gallivan

Louise Calleher Coldwell

Sally Garrison Skidmore

Frances Gilbert Browne

Ann Greer Adams

Alice Cuggenheimer Mackay

Laura Hailev Bowcn

Mary Ann Nicklin Quarngesser

Elizabeth Hodgin Williams

Gwendolyn Hoffman Lamb

Nancie Howe Entenmann

Louisa Hunt Coker

Ann Irvin

Julia Jackson

Katherine Kindred Decker

Corell tauter Murray

Joyce Lenz Young

Lottie Lou Lipscomb Guttry

Catherine Lotterhos Mills

Mary Alice Major Duncan

Gary Maxwell Rousseau

Elizabeth Meade

Rose Montgomery Johnston

Kay Newman Yonge

Carolyn Pannell Ross

Elizabeth Parker Paul

Elise Parrish Laughlin

Cathleen P/ei/fer Ward

Paula Purse Pointer

Joan Roberts Slattcry

Caroline Robinson £llerbe

Frances Shannonhouse Clardy

Sarah Sharp Taylor

Jane Slack Egleby

Elizabeth Smith Abse

Kathryn Smith Schauer

Meredith Smythe Grider

Nancy St. Clair Talley

Karen Steinhardt Howe

Byrd Stone

Jane Street Liles

Leila Thompson Taratus

Mary Thornton Oppcnhimcr

Prince Trimmer Knox

Helen Turner Murphy

Dorothy Urner

Sally Whiitier Adams

Alice Wilkinson Kirby

Anne Wills Hetlage

Helen Wolfe Evans

1957

Agent:

Sophie Ames White

iaquelin Ambler Cusick

Sophie Ames White

Florence Barclay Winston

Alice Barnes Knight

Jane Best Wehland

Priscilla Bowdle Lamont

Elizabeth Bundy Tafl

Jane Campbell Butler

Anna Chao Pai

Marylew Cooper Redd

Elizabeth Churbuck Lewis

Beih Denny Candler

Barbara Denton Berlage

Elaine Dies Colmer

Carter Donnon McDowell

Diane Duffiefd Wood

Dorothy Duncan Hodges

Nancy Fink Leeds

Jane Fitzgerald Treherne-Thomas

Elaine Floyd Fisher

Eklly Folrnar Hum

Ann Frasher Hudson

Mariella Gibson Kerr

Nancy Godwin Baldwin

Sydney Graham Brady

Ruth Green Calhoun

Dagmar Halmagyi Yon

Joan Harjes Jasperson

Charlotte Heuer Watson

Betty Hunt Adams

Patricia Johnson Brockman

Saynor Johnson Ponder

Joan Lawson Kuhns

Nannette McBurney Crowdus

Marguerite McDaniel Powell

Anne McGraih Lederer

Elizabeth McMahan Tolbert

Carol McMurtry

Roberta Malone Henderson

Virginia Marks Paget

Emma Matheson Roe

Catherine Meacham Colin

Anne Mellon Kimzey

Stella Moore McClintock

Belly Murden Michelson

Elynor Neblett Stephens

Susannah Sewlin Archinal

Elaine Newton Dickinson

Averala Paxlon Poucher

Joy Peebles Massie

Helenc Perry

Page Phelps Coulter

Jane Pinckney Hanahan

Susan Raglahd Lewis

Joanne Raines Daniel

Jane Rather Thtebaud

Sue Roth Olson

Margery Scott Johnson

Enid Slack

Christine Smith Lowry
Helen Smith Davenport
Mary Landon Smith Brugh
Susan Smith Stewart
Elayne Steele Shults
Emily Sienhouse Downs
Susan Stevens Cootey
Sandra Stingily Simpson
Mary Sioll Warner
Carolyn Swift Fleming
Katharine Tilghman Lowe
Mary Ann Van Dervoort Large
Louise Wallace Wilemon
Mary Webb Miller
Virginia Weed Browne
Carroll Weitzel Rivers
Carolyn Westfall Monger
Marjorie Whilson Aude
Anne Wilson Rowe
Cynthia Wilson Frenzel
Elizabeth Wilson Woodruff
Mary Ann Wilson Malefakis
Natalie Wittich Morrow

1958

Agent:

Lynn Prior Harrington

Dedie Anthony Coch
MoUte Archer Payne
Sally Austen Adams
Susan Avril Schneider
Barbara Bagg McPeek
Joan Baggs McKenzie
Cornelia Bear Givhan
Gisela Benecke Odell
Olivia Benedict Maynard
June Berguido James
Julia Soothe Perry
Kay Branch McKenzie
Mary Lane Bryan Sullivan
Floride Buchanan Heyward
Helen Burkett Stevens
Joan Cabaniss Harrison
Eleanor Cain Pope
Susan Calhoun Heminway
Claire Cannon Christopher
Alexandra Carpenter Cole
Ruth Carpenter Pitts
Dianne Chase Monroe
Charlotte Coan Biren
Elizabeth Coggeshall Nock
Lee Cooper Robb
Anne Couchman
Lynn Crosby Gammill
Susan Davis Briggs
Dana Dewey Woody
Cecile Dickson Banner
Virginia Eastman Gossage
Marietta Eggleston Carpenter
Sandra Elder Harper
Alice EUer Patterson
Barbara Elliot Eddins
Myrna Fielding Hamel
Peggy Fossetf Lodeesen
Ruth Frame Salzberg
Elizabeth Gallo Skladal
Judith Graham Lewis
Catharine Hill Loth
Elizabeth Kemper Wharton
Edith Knapp Clark
Joan Lamparier Downs
Maud Leigh Hamlin
Mary Lineherger Roberts
Cornelia Long Kaminski
Carol McClave Mercner
Ann McCullough Floyd
Julia McCullough Shivers
Elizabeth McCuichen Williams
Linda McGuire Last
Elizabeth Moore Gardner
Joan Nelson Bargamin
Violet Nelson Talbot
Ethel Ogden Burwell
Jane Oxner Waring
Valeria Parker Sharp
Evelyn Pedersen Oebauer
Alice Pfister Auly
Ann Plumb Duke
Lynn Prior Harrington
Margaret Richey Toole
Anne Robinson
Betsy Robinson Taylor
Sue Rosson Tejml
Caroline Sauls Hilz
Elaine Schuster
Adele Scott Carulhers
Margaret Shannon
Gertrude Scott Caldwell
Gertrude Sharp Caldwell
Jane Shipman Kuntz
Belly Sivalls Davis
Elizabeth Smith Cawein
Margaret Smith Warner
Eleanor St. Clair Thorp
Patty Svkes Treadwell
Marsha Taliaferro Will
Beedy Tatlow Ritchie
Mary Taylor Swing
Faith Templeton Rounlree
Langhorne Tuller Webster
Virginia Tvson Lawrence
Betty Warden Hens*in
Mary Ann Ward Richler
Dorothy Woods McLcod
Lila Wrapr Saunders
Jar>et Wynn Dougherty

19S9

Ag^nt

Connie Fitzgerald Lange

Houston Andrews Kirby
Sallie Armfield McMillion
Fortunaia Azores
Sally Beattie Sinkler
Joanne Bosserl Thompson
Elizabeth Brawner Pittman
Marcia Brown Lyle
Catherine Brownlee Smeltzer
Ethel Bruner Davis
Martha Bulkley O'Brien
Martha Burnet Carlisle
Vivian Butler Scolt
Mary Chen Gutmann
Diane Clark Schweigaard-Olsen
Elizabeth Colwill Wiegers
Margaret Cook
Mary Cooke Carle
Patricia Davis Sutker
Joann Derrickson Slights
Claire Devener
Salty Dobson Danforth
Diane Doscher
Elizabeth Duke Seaman
Jane Duncan King
Deborah Dunning Neu
Mary Durham Tyler
Ann Eagles Carrell
Alice Farmer Brown
Anne Fisher Crowell
Cornelia Fitzgerald Lange
Judith Franklin Campbell
Courtney Gibson
Ann Gumaer Johnson
Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill
Jacqueline Gay Hart Gaines
Ann Hearin

Jacqueline Hekma Stone
Harriet Henderson Stubblefield
Karen Herschbach Bates
Susan Hight

Gertrude Jackson Smithcr
Jane Jamison Tatman
Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb
Barbara Kelly Tate
Linda Knickerbocker Ford
Sandra LaSiaiti MacDonald
Barbara Lewis Weed
Isa Lowe Ziegler
Virginia MacKethan Kitchin
Sorrel MacKell McElroy
Cecile Martin Pearsall
Kathleen Mather Bulgin
Sally Mavfield Schreiner
Elizabeth' Meyerink Lord
Lizora Miller Yonco
Dorothy Moore Lawson
Evelyn Moore Horton
Sarah Murdock Moore
Virginia Nassib Collett
Fleming Parker Rutledge
Mary Payne Hester
Ann Pegram Lyle
Susan Perry Irvine
Rew Price'Cart\€
Elsie Prichard Cancr
Virginia Ramsey Eaiton
Nan Reed Snyder
Debora von Reischach Swan
Betsy Salisbury Creekmore
Barbara Sampson Borsch
Prudence Sandifer Scott
Joan Schladermundi Osgood
Mary Blair Scott Valentine
Elizabeth Smith White
Grelchen Smith Buntschuh
Judith Sorley Chalmers
Elijabeth Space Dunn
Valerie Stoddard Loring
Mary Lee Taggard Jay lor
Susan Taylor Montague
Tabb Thornton Farinholt
Susan Timberlake Thomas
Mary Todd Singh
Kathleen Tyler Sheldon
Dorothy Utf Mayer
Catherine Waijin Flemings
Julia Waits Buchanan
Jane Wheeler

Anne Camilla Wimbish Kasanin
Alice Wood Thompson
Lucia Wood
Ann Young

1960

Agent:

Carolyn King Ratcliffe

Rheit Ball Thagard
Judith Barnes Agnew
Dorothy Barnwell Kerrison
Barbara Beam Denison
Barbara Bell Peterson
Barbara Bowcn
Elizabeth Buechner Morris
Starr Bullis Phillips
Mar> Claiborne Johnston
Margaret Cook Montgomery
Joyce Cooper Toomey
Nancy Conon Ciibbes
Eleanor Crosby Sinclair
Lee Cullum Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. McDowell

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Mclniosh

Mr. M. P. McLean

Mr. J. Finley McRac

Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Medercr

Mrs. Richard H. Meyer

Mrs. tdgar P. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Miller. Jr.

Mr. and Mrs William C Moog

The Rc\. and Mrs. Merrill M. Moore

Mr. and Mrs. Redingion Moore

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Morris

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Morton

The Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Munds

Mrs. David Newhall. Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Newnnan

Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Ntles

Mr. John Lord O'Brian

Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Ostrander

Mrs. Theron McD. Owens

Mrs, Henr>- G. Pannell

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar N. Pederson

Mrs. J. J. Perkins

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Perry

Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell O. Phelps

Mr. W. H. Poole. Jr

Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus A. Porter

Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Powell. Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Prevost

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad C. Price

Dr. and Mrs. John W. Price. Jr.

Mrs. Thomas Pringlc

Mr. Charles N. Prothro

Admiral and Mrs. Allen G. Quynn

Mrs. Lden Baton Rand

Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Rankin

Mrs. Donald D. Rasco

Mrs. H. M. Riichey

Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Rowleti

Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Rusmisel

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene D. Saunders

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Schroder. II

Mr. and Mrs. Buford Scolt

Dr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Scott

Mr. and Mrs. Orvel Sebring

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Seward

Mrs. William B. Shaw

Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Sheaff

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sheffield

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shure

Mr. and Mrs. Montford H. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Smith

Mr. and Mrs. William Sorlor

Mr. John M. Stemmons

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Tetzlaff

Mrs. Alsen D. Thomas

Anonymous

Mrs. Margaret C- Thouron

Mrs. Fred C- Tilghman

Mr. and Mrs. Townsend G. Treadway

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Trosch

The Right Reverend and

Mrs. Beverlev D. Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Wil'liam D. Tynes. Ill
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C, Tyson
Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Van Tassel
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vaughan
Mrs. Eunice B. von Reischach
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Vorys
Mr. Jerome Waterman
Mr. and Mrs. John I. Watson
Mrs. W. G. Wemple
Mr. and Mrs. Millard F. West. Jr.
Mr. Ernest White
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Wilbourn
Mrs. William C. Williams. Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Milion Wirtzman
Captain and Mrs. Gerard H. Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Granville Worrell
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Writer. Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Wynn
The Rev. and Mrs. William W. Yardley
Mr. and Mrs. John Yoe
Ur. and Mrs. Southgate Leigh. Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lemmon
Mrs. George LeVarn
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell M. Levi
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Lewis
Mr. Hinton \ . Longino
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edwin E. Lord
Mrs. William A. Luke. Jr.
Mr. John F. Marshall
Dr, and Mrs. Edward McCrady
Mr. and Mrs. William T. McCullough
Dr. and Mrs. Cicorge T. McCutchen

Gifts From Overseers

Mrs. Richard H. Balch
Mr. C Waller Barrett
Mrs. Richard J. Both
Mr. Wright Bryan
Miss Margaret Clapp
Mr. John J. Corson
Mr. Hugh k. Dufficid
Dr. Connie M. (juion

Mrs. Leonard M. Honon

Mrs. Remy Lcmaire

Mr. J. H. Tyler McConnell - ^

Mr* J. Wilson Newman

Mrs. Anne G. Pannell

Mrs. Houston S. Park. Jr.

Mr. Charles N. Prothro

Mrs. Edgar F. Shannon. Jr.

Mr. Robert C Tyson

The Hon. Edward Thompson Wailes

Mrs. Robert C. Wans. Jr.

Gifts From Friends

(Including Students, Faculty and Staff

Mrs. Ralph Aiken

Miss Lois Ballenger

Miss Eleanor Barton

Anonymous

Miss Jane C Belcher

Miss Miriam F. Bennett

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C Bingham

Miss Barbara Blair

Mr. Flerman V. Boley

Miss Eleanor Bowling

Miss Margaret A. Brown

Mr. John D. Capron

Mr. James R. Caskie

Mr. Leslie M. Cassidy

Mrs. William C Cheney

Miss Mabel Chipley

Mr. Brackett H. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton S. Clark

Mr. Frank G- Davidson. Jr.

Mr. Donald W. Denniston

Miss Elizabeth E. Downey

Mr. and Mrs. Hunton Downs

Mr. John B. Downs

Miss Geneva Drinkwaler

Mrs. John B. Ferguson. Jr.

Miss Ruth Firm

Anonymous

Miss Maxine Garner

Miss Elsie W. Gilliam

Mr. G. Noble Gilpin

Mr. Edward S. Graves

Miss Ridie J. Guion .

Miss Florence Hague

Mr. W. Gibbs Herbruck

Mr. and Mrs. Ames B. Heltrick

Mr. John L. Hettrick

Mrs. M. S. Hines

Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Hood

Mrs, Dorothy K- Howard

Mr. T. Haller Jackson. Jr.

Miss Dorothy Jester

Mrs. E. Runk Kayan

Miss Mary Ann Lee

Mr. Raymond S. Lees

Miss Esther B. Leffler

Mrs. Bernice D. Lill

Mrs. Perrin Lowrey. Jr.

Mrs. Robert H. Lucas

The Rev. Frank McClain

Dr. A. Parks McCombs

Miss Gertrude Malz

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Martin

Dr. and Mrs. R. John Matthew

Miss Freida May

Mr. Wilson Lee Miser

Miss Elizabeth Mdller

Miss Carolyn L. Moseley

Miss Lysbeth Muncy

Miss Lydia Newland

Mr. John D. Owen. Jr.

Miss Ethel Ramage

Miss Sarah Ramage

Mrs. James A. Rawley

Mr. E. Neill Raymond

Dr. Carol M. Rice

Mr. and Mrs. Elias Richards. Jr.

Mrs. Martha H. Richardson

Miss Harriet H. Rogers

Mrs. Marion B. Rollins

Mr. B. F. D. Runk

Mrs. Herbert Scovitle

Mrs. Ephraim Shorr

Mr. and Mrs. R off Sims

Miss Elizabeth Sprague

Miss Ruth H. Stevens

Mrs. Nora S. Surface

Sweet Briar:

Athletic Association

Bum Chums

Chung Mungs

Class of 1967

Student Development
Mr. William M. Trausneck
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh H. Trout. Jr.
Mrs. Seymour W. Urban
Mr. and Mrs. Granville G. Valentine. Jr.
Mr. Mack Williamson
Anonymous

Miss Jean Louise Williams
Dr. Terrell Wingfield
Mr. John M. Yost

Corporation & Foundation Gifts

•Aetna Life Insurance Company

Allen-Morrison. I_nc.
•American Brake Shoe Company
•American Enka Foundation
•American Express Foundation
•Armstrong Cork Companv
•Asarce Foundation

Avalon Foundation

Barker-Jennings Hardware Corporation

Barrett Foundation
•Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation

Caskie Paper Company

Central Virginia Telephone Corporation
'Cerro Corporation
•The Champion Paper Foundation
•The Chase Manhaiten Bank
•Cities Service Foundation
•Continental Can Company. Inc.

Cooperative Building and Loan
Association

Craddock-Terry Foundation. Inc.

The Crown Zellerbach Foundation

The Charles A. Dana Foundation. Inc.
•The A. B. Dick Foundation
•Dow Chemical Company

Duti-Duds. Inc.
•Esso Education Foundation

The Fidelity National Bank

First National Trust and Savings Bank

C. B. Fleet Company
•General Electric Company
•General Foods Fund. Inc.

General Motors Corporation

Glamorgan Pioe and Foundry Company
•Gulf Oil Company
•Hercules Powder Company

Hill City Tobacco Comnanv. Inc.
♦Honeywell Inc.

Housenold Finance Foundation

•I. B. M.

A. G. Jefferson. Inc.
•Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
•Johnson and Higgins
'^ ne Kidder Peabody Fund

The Charles E. Merrill Trust

Montague-Betts Company. Inc.

Morton Manufacturing Corporation
•Phillips Petroleum Company
'Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company

The Presser Foundation

Procter and Gamble Scholarship Program
■Rust Engineering Company

R. H. Schenkel. Inc.

James A. Scott & Son. Inc.
•Scott Paper Company Foundation

Sears. Roebuck and Company Foundation

Strother Drug Company
'Standard Oil Company of Ohio
'J. Walter Thompson Company
•Time Incorporated
"Vulcan Materials Company

Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges

The John Jay and Eliza

Jane Watson Foundation*

•Denotes companies which have matched
gifts to the Sweet Briar Fund

Bequests

Estate of Anna F. Beaver

Estate of Sue Slaughter

Estate of Hildegard A. Stiicklen

DESIGNATION OF GIFTS

July 1, 1965 to June 30, 1966

Physical Facilities

Dana Challenge $ 399,287.90

Science Building 32,293.92

Chapel 27,011.93

Students Activities Building 22,182.00

Swimming Pool 437.50

Unrestricted 370.00

Endowment

Faculty Salaries 130,002.07

Scholarships 79,334.38

Unrestricted Endowment 28,026.16

Frences O'Brian Hettrick Fund 9,799.52

Chaplaincy 8,080.00
Dr. Connie Guion Excellence

Fund 2,000.00

Mary J. Pearl Lectureship 1,464.00

Jessie Melville Fraser Fund 1,433.92

Marcia Capron Award 1,000.00

Professorships 552.00

Other 1,592.65

Current Purposes

General Funds 103,288.18

Miscellaneous Scholarships 6,850.00

Annual Scholarships 5,810.00

Gifts in Kind (Valued at) 1,741.92

Library Books 947.11

Suspense and Other 23,406.99

S887,112.15

$481,583.25

$263,484.70

$142,044.20

Catherine Fitzgerald Booker "47,
from Dayton. Ohio, greets Anne
Mcjunkin Briber "43. of Milwau-
kee. Wisconsin. They are newly
elected members of the Board.

The return to campus as

a member of the Board of the Alumnae

Association is the experience

told here by the Chairman of Region VI.

To Keep Up
with Sweet Briar

By Kay Fitzgerald Booker '47

\\T

\\ HEN a student answers, "\es. Ma'am," you
ki.ow for certain you are an alumna, and that of course
is not al all unsettling for an alumna of twenty years,
but it was a bit shattering to the '64 alumna so addressed
at the Fall Council meeting. Let's say it was the dash,
the handsome appearance of returning alumnae that
prompted the respect and cordiality of the students,
themselves a well-dressed, poised and enthusiastic group.

The theme of this year's Alumnae Council was
"Sweet Briar of Today."

Sweet Briar Toda) , said Dean Catherine Sims, is
"Classics and Computers." What better wav to say that
Sweet Briar is both old and new, changing and un-
changed? From the Whitney Professor of Physics, who
talked of |Mogramming and computing, to the chairman
of the Social Committee, who told us "the Bum Chums
are still cliasing the Q. V.s," we alumnae learned that
yesterday endures at Sweet Briar and that tomorrow is
here.

Truly impresseil by what is new at Sweet Briar —
the Cliaicl. Babcock Fine Arts Buikling. the driveways,
curbs and landscaping. Guion Science Building, Alum-
nae House, the Book Shop, Post Office, Dew and Glass

halls, the changing curriculum to meet expanding knowl-
edge, the change in admissions policy, the better-prepared
student, library addition, student cars and phones, even
the patrolmen's white jeep — however impressed by
changes, we alumnae naturally take delight in the col-
lege we knew and found again at Council: the gold and
crimson October days, the beauty of the boxwoods and
green hills, the view across the woodlands to the lake,
the friendliness and rapport between student and teacher,
the genuine interest by teacher in the student, the integ-
rity and steadfastness of the honor system and self-govern-
ment, the character of the Sweet Briar student. With
memories of other years and enthusiasm for today, the
alumnae returned for three October days of workshops
and meetings in order to understand better the Sweet
Briar of today.

Over one hundred alumnae representing 42 classes
from 1915 to 1966 came to Council. They came from 21
states and 62 cities, as nearby as Monroe. Va.. and as far
as Pasadena. Calif. ( \ ou may judge how meaningful
Council is by the fact that Anne Mcjunkin Briber, '43,
who simply doesn't (ly. did fly from Milwaukee to Lynch-
burg. I The alumnae came as fund agents, class secretar-

NOVEMBER 1966

The changing student: how she is selected, how she is aided by the fund-raising efforts

ies, reunion chairmen, bequest chairmen, club representa-
tives, alumnae representatives, bulb chairmen, and mem-
bers of the Executive Board which has as its head, Blair
Bunting Both, '40. Also there were alumnae members of
the Board of Overseers. Nida Tomlin Watts, '40. Eliza-
beth Prescott Balch, '28, Emmy Riely Lemaire. '30, and
the alumna member of the Board of Directors. Gladys
Wester Horton, '30. All alumnae were guests of the
College and were housed in staff and faculty homes and
nearbv motels.

Tuesday morning, Oct. 4, was a time of registra-
tion, committee meetings (Fund, Regional Chairmen,
Nominating, Alumnae Representatives, Bequest, Re-
union), visiting new landmarks (a tour of the campus
with Peter Daniel, Assistant to the President), and at-
tending classes open to alumnae. These were classes in
art by Miss Barton and Mr. Gurney, biology by Miss
Sprague and Mr. Edwards, English by Mr. Rowland,
French by Miss Buckham, choir rehearsal by Mr. Gilpin,
philosophy by Mr. Regan, and history by Mr. Taylor and
Miss Muncy.

It was Miss Muncy, Professor of history and govern-
ment, who at luncheon in Meta Glass dining room told
several of us (Judy Burnett Halsey. '47. Marion Bower
Harrison, '48, Nancy St. Clair Talley, '56, Margaret
Austin Johnson, '33, and others) that today's student is
far better prepared than she was in past years and that
she demands much more from her teachers. Dean Sims,
later on. also mentioned that today's student is better pre-
pared for college. This fact is not unknown to alumnae
who see their own children studying more and studying
certain subjects earlier than they themselves did in ele-
mentary and secondary classes. Nancy Godwin Baldwin,
'57, Admissions Director, carried this idea further at
the Workshop for Alumnae Representatives when she
pointed out that CEEB scores of Sweet Briar applicants
have been rising over the years; that in this year's fresh-
man class of 245, 63% ranked in the top fifth of their
class, including 44 Cr in the top lO'^f. Twelve students
entered with advanced standing. Of last year's graduat-
ing class, 27% are earning further degrees.

The enrollment. Nancy continued at the Workshop,
is now 714 (with 75 faculty members! from 42 states.
District of Columbia, and 13 foreign countries. 23 girls
are studying abroad, in France, Scotland. Sweden. Italy,
and North Wales. Her statistics included 1.116 girls who
applied for admission to this year's freshman class; 22

alumnae daughters in the freshman class, 20 in the sopho-
more class, 18 in the junior class, and 21 alumnae
daughters (or granddaughters) in the senior class.

J__ HE over-all fee this year is $2,950; it will be $3,100
for '67-'68. 91 students are receiving financial aid in
some form from the College. This includes nine faculty
or staff children attending college elsewhere and for
whom Sweet Briar is paying tuition. 17 Alumnae Club
Scholarships were awarded this year; 14 students have
received National Defense Student loans since July, 1966.
Last year more than 150 students had 190 self-help jobs
and earned more than $25,000 in a variety of jobs, such
as typing for faculty members, working in dining halls.
Admissions Office, language laboratories, showing slides
— and counting birds for Dr. Edwards at 2^ a bird!

Not only have students been earning money, so have
the alumnae (who may be watching rather than counting
birds), to judge from the reports of the Bulb, Boxwood
Circle, and Fund chairmen.

Kitty Guerrant Fields, '53, Bulb Committee chairman,
presided at the Bulb Workshop, assisted by Vivienne
Barkalow Hornbeck, '15, who originated the project in

Dean Catherine S. Sims presides at the session 'Focus on the
William Trausneck, Associate Professor of Education, Dean Sims.
Urdu, Kay Macdonald, Associate Professor of Physical Education.

Alumnae Magazine

of alumnae, how she ivorks to help herself, the beauty of the campus around her.

1951. Since then the project has blossomed into a fabu-
lous achievement, this year selling over $95,267.02, some
$9,779 more than last year's total. The Washington
Club outsold all other clubs with a sale of $10,711.
The winners of the trip to Europe were Elizabeth Shep-
herd Scott, '43, of Wilmington. Delaware with sales of
$1,311.26 and Anne Sheffield Hale, '54, of Atlanta, Ga.
with sales of $1,117.30.

Vivienne Barkaloiv Hornbeck, '18, of Washington,
D. C. sold the largest amount of bulbs ($2,179.94) and
Blair Bunting Both, '40, of Wilmington, Del. sold the
third largest amount ($1,288,571, but they disqualified
themselves at tlie beginning of the contest.

Gladys Wester Hoiton, chairman of the Boxwood
Circle Committee, announced that 51 Circle members, in-
cluding 15 new ones, contributed $148,654.43 this year.
The range of gifts was $1,000 to $21,217. Membership in
Boxwood Circle is on an annual basis and is composed
of alumnae who give $1,000 or more to the College in a
fiscal year. Mrs. Horton, member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the College, showed the alumnae the plans and
drawings for the new student-faculty center to be built
where the Date House now stands. The Date House
will be completely remodeled ( red brick will replace

Faculty." — Left to right, Lilly Rappaport. Professor of Phvsics,
Prahba Dixit, Visiting Lecturer in Indian History and Hindi-
Each spoke on new programs and courses in their departments.

the white frame) and enlarged to include a dining room
for students, teachers, and guests, a coffee shop, TV and
card room, lounge, small dining room for private parties,
and a room for discotheque dancing. In her report,
Mrs. Horton said, "To encourage support for this project,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wailes have made a marvelous
challenge gift of $40,000 to be matched by an equal
amount by Dec. 31, 1966. This provides a wonderful
opportunity for alumnae to help improve the social facili-
ties on campus, an important area of college life."

Carla de Creny Levin, '51, chairman of the Alumna
Fund Committee, announced that as of June 20, 1966,
3,150 alumnae contributed $244,731.63, including the
gifts of Boxwood Circle members.

Council was not all facts and figures, however.
President Pannell gave a reception Tuesday evening, wel-
coming alumnae, and Alumnae House provided a well-
stocked refreshment stand, a popular gathering place
before dinner and late in the evenings. The Admission
Office gave a tea one afternoon in its luxurious new offices
on second-floor Fletcher. There, where Miss Stockholm
read her Shapespeare notes and Miss Muncy taught
British history, are now carpeted offices, wing chairs,
draperies, and a reception hall for visitors. Alumnae had
lunch in the Refectory with students from councillors'
areas and dinner in Meta Glass dining room with student
leaders and daughters of councillors. At this dinner
on Wednesday evening, the Sweet Tones entertained. This
group of 13 sophomores, juniors, and seniors, is headed
by Beth Gawthrop, '67, daughter of Elizabeth Campbell
Gawthrop, '39, who is Bequest Chairman of the Alumnae
Association.

/ \ T THE Opening Session of Council, Joan Devore
Both, '41, second vice president of the Alumnae Associa-
tion and Chairman of Alumnae Council, introduced Pres-
ident Pannell, whose address to the Council was called
"The Old Math and The New Sweet Briar" (See page
two of this magazine ) .

Following Mrs. Pannell's talk was the talk by Dr.
Ernest P. Edwards, Professor of Biology and son of Dr.
Preston Edwards, who tau:ht physics at Sweet Briar. Dr.
Edwards spoke about "The Sweet Briar Campus" and
illustrated his lecture with the exquisite color movies he
has taken of Sweet Briar during tlie Fall, Winter, Spring,
and Summer. As he had stated before in his article in the

November 1966

Martha von Briesen

Alumnae from the class of 1910 through the class of 1966 gathered for the general sessions each day in the Emily Bowen Room.

The changing alumnae: she will be able to hear academic speakers
through the Traveling Faculty Program, available to alumnae clubs.

July, 1966, Alumnae Magazine, and as his film shows,
the Sweet Briar campus is almost unique among Ameri-
can colleges and universities with its opportunities for
first-hand ecological study. Having seen the film, many
alumnae agreed that Dr. Edwards will be a valuable mem-
ber of the newly-formed Alumnae Association's Traveling
Faculty Program.

Describing the Traveling Faculty Program, Marion
Bower Harrison, '48, member of the Executive Board,
told the Club Presidents' Workshop that the Program is
the result of the Clubs' expressed interest in continuing
education; that the costs of the Program will be shared
by the College, the Alumnae Association, and the hostess
clubs. 13 faculty members have joined the list of speak-
ers for Sweet Briar Clubs. They are: Miss Barton, his-
tory of art; Miss Belcher, Miss Bennett, Mr. Edwards,
biology; Miss Garner, religion, Asian religion, church
history; Miss Lee, the new math, the computer age;
Miss Macdonald, tennis, hockey clinics, techniques of re-
laxation; Miss Marik, piano recital, lecture recital; Mr.
Nelson, Shakespeare, contemporary literature; Mr. Row-
land, English, Asian studies; Mr. Shannon, organ re-

cital, music; Dean Sims, history, political science, educa-
tion in general; Mr. Hapala, Government, Asian Studies;
Mr. Raymond, economics.

r^ OCUS on die Faculty," a fascinating if brief re-
turn to the classroom, was the one-hour presentation on
Wednesday afternoon by four faculty members. Dean
Sims introduced them to alumnae in the Emily Bowen
room. First was Dr. Lilly Rappaport, Whitney Professor
of Physics, who described the computer age and, with
great good humor, her attempts to master techniques of
programming. She urged college women to enter the
expanding field of programming, saying that what the
slide rule is today the computer will be in five years;
that while we have 35,000 computers today and eight
billions invested, by 1975 we will have 85,000 computers
and 30 billions invested. A new faculty member then
spoke: Miss Prahba Dixit, Lecturer at University Col-
lege for Women in Delhi, and this year Visiting Lecturer
in Indian History and Hindi-Urdu at Sweet Briar. This
attractive Indian teacher, who looked scarcely older than

Alumnae Magazine

The changing faculty: they study computer

programming^ teach Hindi-Urdu and

golf, direct an active teacher-training program,

in a curriculum characterized by "a lack of requirements."

Dorothy Keller Iliff '26 studies the bulletin board in Fletcher.

the students, discussed, and with persuasion, India's vain
and mistaken eflforts and attempts to re-create the past in
modern times.

The next speaker brought a gasp and then applause
from alumnae as she rose, for she was the Associate
Professor of physical education and she was holding the
new Sweet Briar gym suit: a tartan mini-skirt. At long
last, alumnae thought, remembering the ill-fitting pink or
yellow one-piece bloomer costume of yesterday. Today,
alumnae all over the country, be of cheer now that Sweet
Briar students are in fashion with their plaid mini-skirts
and white button-down shirts! And would you believe
that golf has come to Sweet Briar? It's true. Two putting
greens are going up beside the tennis courts, and golf
instruction is available. Gym is required for two years.
Miss Macdonald told us; new requirements include the
Harvard Step Test and motor ability test for freshmen,
and one course in dance, posture, movement, or body
gymnastics for all students. ( Dean Sims added her
thoughts to the gym discussion with a remark that she
still has hopes for a swimming pool at Sweet Briar.)

Dr. William Trausneck, Associate Professor of Edu-

cation, described Sweet Briar's three teacher-training
programs: the nursery, instruction in foreign language
in Amherst County, and the practice-teaching program
in the County. Byrd Stone, '56, directs the nursery, in
which 10 students participate in kindergarten-nursery
school training. An observation window is new this year,
and the playground is improved. Dr. Trausneck said.
The Junior Year Abroad Students participate in the in-
struction in conversational foreign language in grades
four to seven in the county, 110 hours of practice teach-
ing per year is offered in the practice-teaching program,
and it is done in both elementary and secondary county
schools.

For many alumnae listening to Dr. Trausneck, the
education courses were new, and a glance at the catalogue
of courses indicates the changes. Offered now are The
Teaching of Reading and Children's Literature, Instruc-
tional Methods and Materials in the Classrooms, and the
above-mentioned Student Teaching of Foreign Language
Conversation. In her talk to alumnae, Dean Sims told
us also that the education courses today are designed to
help students meet certification requirements at both
elementary and secondary levels, even though such re-
quirements vary from state to state.

J_J^OW Fare the Liberal Arts?" was the title of the
Dean's talk on Wednesday afternoon. They fare well,
indeed, alumnae concluded upon hearing Dean Sims'
eloquent description of Sweet Briar's course of study.
"The lack of requirements," which permits flexibility and
variety in individual programs, characterizes today's
curriculum, she stated. To be sure, certain requirements
remain: English, 1, 2; foreign language proficiency; two
years of science, including one laboratory science; one
year each in literature; classics; history; fine arts;
anthropology or economics or government or philosophy
or religion; two years of gym; 25% of 120 semester
hours in a major field. The degree requirements, then,
provide the basic tools, or background, so that "students
may explore the broad fields of knowledge, and in the
end have a substantial concentration in one field."

Dean Sims continued, "Although it does not prepare

November 1966

Martha von Briesen

Alumnae stroll tliiMu^li ilir \\u\\\ Is en route to

President Pannell's reception given in their honor.

On the porch of Sweet Briar House are
Ginger Borah Slaughter "62, Molly
Harris Jordan '62, and Deborah Glazier
Michael '62, who were among twenty
alumnae graduated since 1960 who at-
tended the Alumnae Council meetings.

Changing traditions: some are new, but remaining ones make alumnae feel at home.

students for any specific vocation, the liberal arts curricu-
lum makes them good generalists and gives them the pos-
sibility of becoming good specialists, too. It is more
practical, in view of the explosion of knowledge and the
rapid rate of obsolescence, then so-called 'practical' voca-
tional education." Firmly opposed to specialization be-
gun too early, Dean Sims added that the advanced place-
ment courses in high school often encourage specializa-
tion too soon. Her opinion of advanced placement
courses especially interested many alumnae who see in
their high schools at home the proud announcements of
"advanced English" or "advanced math" or "advanced
physics," which to Dean Sims are often superficial
courses. "The advanced courses in high school are not
an unmixed blessing," she said, giving us food for
thought here at home.

"What do we in a liberal arts college give for
$3,000?" she asked, and answered: "The opportunity
for a student to discover and develop her own talents

and interests. The liberal arts college starts her on her
way to the acquisition of the well-stored mind which will
give her personal satisfaction all her life and make her a
good companion to family and friends. It gives her the
educated person's awareness of other ways of life and
other modes of thought. It gives her the opportunity to
learn how to learn. It gives her the chance to stretch
her mind and once stretched, it never comes back to its
original size."

_J_ \_S WE had enjoyed the talks and meetings with the
faculty, the Dean and the President over two days, we
also enjoyed the students' panel discussion the last eve-
ning of Council.

"Evening with Studerts of Today," was led by the
President of Student Government, Mary Bell '67.
Assembled in the Emily Bowen room were the president
of the senior class, the Benedict Scholar (just returned

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from her junior year in Paris), the Manson Scholar, the
chairman of the social committee, orientation chairman,
and chairman of Judicial Board. From these entertaining
and lively students we caught a glimpse of Sweet Briar
life today. We learned many old traditions still continue
— the Christmas Bazaar, Senior Show, May Day, Fresh-
man Show. Faculty Show, Junior Banquet and class
rings, the Fall Weekend ( informal Friday night party
with combo, a Saturday concert and formal dance, a Sun-
day rugby game) . We learned that several rules we knew
are changed ( Bermudas may be worn on campus except
to classes and meals, closing hours are later, juniors and
seniors no longer need be in groups of three or more to
visit student apartments in Lynchburg, Charlottesville.
Lexington). We learned that the "Sweet Briar Student
Government Constitution is being rewritten to delegate
more responsibility to the student sphere." We learned
of new traditions springing up, the one dearest to the
students now is Tempo, a student sponsored symposium
to be held March 2. 3. 4. 1967. This meeting. Contem-
porary Art and Thought in America, will be the first
symposium sponsored by Sweet Briar students, who are
asking the support and interest of all alumnae in the
pro^'ect. $12,000 is needed, we were told, and some
$7,000 is in hand for the symposium.

Among contemporary thoughts in America among
alumnae and students everywhere is the much-publici-
zed "morality of the student," and this topic was not
overlooked during the students' panel discussion.

Current Handbook rules may differ from yesterday's
and may change, as they do with time and custom; yet
the Sweet Briar student herself remains the same in many
ways, in her marvelous good looks and youth, her talent
for fun and good times, her eagerness for challenge, her
awareness of world problems yet concern for self, her
desire for independence yet need for security, her serious-
ness of purpose and devotion to cause. She perhaps is,
indeed may well be, more committed to learning and to
accomplishment than were past students, if post-grad-
uate w6rk and careers are the criteria for such judgment.
Certainly, from lecturers and conversations and articles
on Sweet Briar, the alumnae may conclude that today's
students are exciting to teach, ambitious to succeed,
and worthy of the efforts of their parents, their college,
faculty and alumnae.

Thursday noon the alumnae departed for home with
expressions of thanks to the College and Alumnae House
for their hospitality and program, with feelings for
Sweet Briar as warm as the sunlit October days they had
enjoyed.

Martha t on Briesen

Nancy Goduin [Salihvin '.i7, Uin ctor of Admissions, invited the alumnae lo tea in the new .\dmissions Offives on second floor of Fletcher.

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I.ET it be graciously conceded at the outset that the
Sunday Salon was born of a surfeit of tulip bulbs!
The idea was conceived the moment a skeptical alumna
began to muse over her hu\b bulletin and her hulh cata-
logue and her hulh order blank, and marvel that what
was once so liberal arts in reality could become so agri-
cultural in retrospect. And eventually the musing and
the marveling took the shape of an attempt to put educa-
tion back into the alumna experience and take some of the
horticulture out of it.

The name "Sunday Salon" is simply a happy coin-
cidence of convenience and conceit. The convenience is
in the fact that Sunday remained the only undecimated day
in the suburban calendar. And the conceit is in the echo
of those remarkable social engagements surrounding the

court of Louis XIV where intellectual exercise was the
order of the day, under the tutelage of certain colorful
ladies who set the pace with charm and wit.

Whatever the glamorous overtones of the title, the
real thing in Westchester is a mid-afternoon gathering of
from 50 to 90 persons for what the publicists would call
a dialogue with distinguished guests. And the publicists
would have a point, because the principal offering is less
like a lecture than an exchange. There is, of course, the
more or less formal presentation of an idea, a reminis-
cence, an institution by a speaker, but then there are
whatever explorations and expansions the subject and
the audience prompt.

For Sunday Salons '64- '65, Anne Pannell, in her
role as historian, surveyed the domains of narrative ver-

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sus analytical history, interspersing interesting sidelights
on the current college generation. Dr. Connie Guion
offered vastly moving and amusing memories of her years
on school and college campuses. Ethel Barrymore Colt
traced the profile of a unique theatrical enterprise that
turns the tool of theatre to the education and social serv-
ice of the community, and then by way of illustration
introduced the professional performance of a typical one-
actor on stroke rehabilitation, commissioned by the De-
partment of Health, Education and Welfare.

For Sunday Salons '65-'66, Mary Krone, a Sweet
Briar alumna, and currently Director of the Civil Service
Commission of the State of New York, described the
staggering variety of employment opportunities on the
state's payroll, and the work of her department in filling
the job openings with qualified personnel. Martha Lucas
Pate, former President of Sweet Briar, took us vicariously
to educational and cultural centers around the world.
And Dr. Lawrence Nelson explored the "Third Realm,"
that treasure island charted by so much of the world's
great poetry, where the apparently inimical forces of
material and spiritual, ephemeral and eternal, mutable
and immutable are turned inside out and viewed as in-
tegral.

This then was the meat of the occasions. Only
slightly less delectable were the fringe benefits. By far
the best of these is the fortunate fact that the Sunday
Salon is bringing to education something it never had,
even at Sweet Briar, and that is male company. In other
words, it is delightfully co-educational. Alumnae hus-
bands have paid it the tribute of not only coming once,
but returning less reluctantly on subsequent Sundays.

There's no doubt that both husbands and guests, not
to mention alumnae, are attracted by two further fringe
benefits: the ease and elegance of the setting, a large
enough alumna house, and the convival pleasures of tea
and cocktails, once headier things are said and done.
There's no doubt either that the Salons in Westchester
would be poorer, if not nonexistent, without either the
male element or the home environment. To cross the
thresholds of the East and the rims of the Dark Continent
between the walls of a basement playroom is exotic. To
hear Dr. Nelson's sonorous bass tones matched by bass
questions and comments is pure relief!

If the world's best impressarios operate in what
might be termed a benevolent despotism, the producer
of Sunday Salons operates in what must surely be called

a benign anarchy. She is her own lord, that is, lady,
with as many good and gracious counselors as there are
interested alumnae. She begs speakers from her own
and anybody else's roster of distinguished friends and
acquaintances. She begs houses from alumnae who may
have been, but will not long remain, total strangers. She
begs postage from the club treasurer. And she begs dis-
counts from printers when she's flush enough to afford
printing, and more frequently, secretarial assistance from
other alumnae for as many mailings as the budget will
bear.

Wishing she were cleverer, she conceives the most
enticing teaser mailing she's capable of, because indiffer-
ence means the wastebasket in Westchester. She may
come up with a "toile" informal sporting a single ques-
tion in French: "Avez-vous jamais assiste au salon de
dimanche?" She may later win Dr. Guion's complicity in
preparing a Sunday Salon prescription on a proper pre-
scription blank. And she will most likely lift the eye-
brows of the local merchant who supplies her with some
300 checkers for announcing Martha Lucas Pate's "Check-
erboard Truth."

She may do the introductions herself, or she may
find introducers. She may work alone or she may choose
a committee. But she must desire to cultivate something
besides tulip bulbs.

• lALON expenses in Westchester consist mainly of
materials and postage for mailings. It is club policy to
offer reimbursement of the hostess for liquor consumed
in cocktails, but the offer is more often than not re-
fused. A very modest gift (bulbs for Dr. Guion's building
at New York Hospital, theatre tickets for Dr. Nelson,
Sweet Briar plates for Ethel Barrymore Colt, etc.) is
presented to the speaker. There is no fee attached to
either a single session or the series, and there is little
doubt that the experiment would be dealt a nearly fatal
blow if there were.

So that's a Sunday Salon, the Westchester way. An
intellectual adventure that creates a certain air of ele-
gance and preserves a precious informality. A home-
brewed commodity from invitation, to cocktails that has
the personal appeal of hand-done needlework. An echo
of France that lets the mind go out to play with the rest of
us. A tribute to the college that countenances vegetation
only in tulip bulbs.

By Joan Vail Thorne '51

November 1966

The Pattern Is Success

Woman's changing role today is reflected in interesting, unusual occupations of
Sweet Briar alumnae. The keynote is individuality, a matching of talent to oppor-
tunity, a refusal to accept cliches in living. Here, some examples of this trend.

Marcia Fowler Smiley, '49, rose from file clerk to executive with The Reader's Digest.

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I jECAUSE she was used to going back to something
useful in the fall. Marcia Fowler Smiley, '49, took a
job with The Reader's Digest the September after grad-
uation. She filed stencils as a starting job. Today she
is a member of the fulfillment management and adminis-
tration team covering the magazine, the Book Club, and
the single sales divisions.

"I grew up in my grandmother's house in Mt. Kisco,
N. Y., just three miles north of the Digest offices," Marcia
said, "and now we live just three miles south. Filing
stencils was really beginning at the bottom. Happily,
opportunities were never lacking, and by 1955 I was on
the first Systems Design committee for The Reader's
Digest in a project to study computers for list mainte-
nance. The purpose of the project was to improve cus-
tomer service in sending out the magazine and the con-
densed books. We wanted to speed our method of post-
ing payments, too. I'm pleased to say that we achieved
our objectives."

The Reader s Digest was one of the first publishers to
consider computers for their subscriber lists. The commit-
tee went on to design fifty-odd computer programs that
would accomplish this purpose. The Digest first used
Remington Rand Univac II computers, and now uses two
IBM 7074 computers. In 1965, Marcia Fowler Smiley was
named to the Planning Committee by Vice President Kent
Rhodes. This new team is now determining what methods
an dmachines the Digest will use in 1968-1970.

Although her job has grown with the use of compli-
cated business machines, Marcia did not study mathe-
matics at Sweet Briar. Her major was biology. "About
the only thing I do now that relates to biology," she
sad, "is to put a bandaid on my husband [Leonard L.
Smiley, manager of the Appliance Division at Consumers
Union} once in a while."

Marcia is enthusiastic about the field she chose, and
particularly about The Reader s Digest. "Mr. and Mrs.
DeWitt Wallace, the co-founders and owners, have plan-
ned and implemented splendid employee programs. In
addition to excellent pension, medical, life insurance, and
profit-sharing plans, they set up in 1965 a system of
allowing a selected group of executives to distribute some
of the company's philanthropies. Each was allowed to
designate a charity or charities to receive a sum of money
money from The Reader's Digest. The amount distrib-
uted in this manner was $750,000 — and this was in addi-
tion to the magazine's usual philanthropies. It is a tremen-

dously exciting company, and I am proud to be associa-
ted with it."

She said she didn't want to act,
but noiv plans a lifetime career.

J_^UCY MARTIN GIANINO, '60, spent her growing-up
years insisting that she would never go on the stage. "My
parents were in the theatre, and I thought that wasn't for
me," she said. "But I couldn't stay away from acting."

Now a thoroughly trained and thoroughly dedicated
professional actress, Lucy is spending her second season
with the Charles Playhouse, a permanent professional
theatre in Boston. There she and her husband, Gioacchino
S. (Jack) Gianino, are acting together for the first time
since they met in summer stock in 1959.

For long before graduating from Sweet Briar, Lucy
knew that she would be an actress. She changed her
mind about majoring in art, and switched to drama. She
worked at P & P productions. During the summers, she
did summer stock, and it was at the Orleans Arena
Theatre on Cape Cod that she and her husband met. Al-
though they did not see each other again until both
were working in New York some years later, they honey-
mooned at the same Orleans Arena Theatre after their
marriage last July.

Meanwhile, both were busy laying the foundations
for their careers. Lucy appeared as Cassandra in the
Circle-in-the-Square production of "The Trojan Women,"
and gained other Off-Broadway experience in "Electra"
with the Shakespearewrights and in "Happy as Larry."
Viewers of television saw her on the Dupont Show of the
Week, Naked City, and My True Story. With the Charles
Playhouse last season, she played Victoire in "Poor Bitos,"
Barbara in Major Barbara," and Slise in "The Miser."
This season, she opened as Angelica in Congreve's "Love
for Love," and will appear in other of the resident
theatre's tenth anniversary season plays — Genet's "The
Balcony," Brecht's "Mother Courage," "Hamlet," and the
recent Broadway musical. "Oh What a Lovely War."

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with
advanced work at Stanford University. Jack played at
the New York Shakespeare Festival and at the Pabst
Theatre in Milwaukee. In addition to this, and to stock
theatre, he has toured with the road companies of "The
World of Suzie Wong" and "A Man for All Seasons."

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Jane Clark receives award for the best page eililed by a woman.

Priscilla Shite Graham paini- Imilnns in a studio at home.

Last season at the Charles Playhouse he appeared in
"Galileo" and '"The Inspector General," in which Lucy
did not play. He and Lucy live in a Beacon Hill apart-
ment with a cat named Pyewacket, acquired for '"Bell.
Book and Candle" and now a member of the household.
Lucy, who is known professionally by her maiden
name, studied dance under Matt Mattox and Martha
Graham, voice and diction under Marion Rich, singing
under Graham Bernard and acting under John Ulmer.
"But I got a great deal of my training at Sweet Briar,
and it was very good," Lucy said. "And how envious all
we old P & P people were when the new fine arts building
opened the fall after we had graduated!"

From ^'■bnd novels'" to fi successful
produced play, is this writer's road.

I I ER only experience with the theatre was in Junior
League Children's Theatre, and she wrote a play "be-
cause I wrote such bad novels.." Inauspicious as this
sounds, it is the background for a successful first pro-
duction last February for playwright Carolyn Potter
Echols, '38, who is working now on a third play.

"When my daughter, who is now twenty-five, was
small, I wrote children's stories that were used in edu-
cation courses," Carolyn said. "My son was killed when
he was sixteen, and it was then that I started serious
writing, to occupy myself. One of my novels was op-
tioned, but the publishers wanted so many changes that
I ruined it in my efforts to improve it. The theatre
director at Southern Methodist University read it, and
said that since the best thing in it was dialogue I should
try writing a play."

Her first play, "Cat's Eye," might be classified
"parlor tragedy." It concerns a social-climbing matron,
her insurance-salesman husband, her scheming friend,
and her teen-age daughter, all in a setting reminiscent
of Mrs. Echols's native Dallas. "What Mrs. Echols has
done is take a hard look at the soul of the status seeker,
the person whose values are warped and whose only pur-
pose is to 'belong' at whatever cost," wrote critic John
Neville of the Dallas Morning News the morning after
opening night, in a review that could scarcely find fault
with the play or the production.

"Louis Hexter, a founder of the Margo Jones theatre,
got some people — all professionals — together to read
the play," Mrs. Echols said. "Norma Young, of Theatre

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Three, came, and decided to use tlie plav as a benefit
to celebrate the filth anniversary of that theatre. It was
very exciting — black tie. tickets at $12.50, and they
sold out two nights and requested a third.

"I wrote the play from observation and from a very
strong feeling. None of the characters was a person
I knew, or any one person at all, but some members of the
audience thought they were. I had letters from some
members of the audience. The New York agent who
has read the play says it is too regional in treatment for
Broadway."

A second play, a comedy, is being considered in
New York, and Mrs. Echols is writing an avant garde
play now. "What I like is the writing. I don't like the
other part," she said. "For 'Cat's Eye' I had to be at
every rehearsal and do a lot of rewriting. I have had
requests from theatres in five cities to do the play, but
I would have to do too much travelling and be away
from my husband for too long so I have said no."

Mrs. Echols keeps a schedule of sorts for her work.
She begins each morning and works for several hours,
depending on how it goes. "I swim or pull weeds between
writing sessions," she said. "It helps."

"Kinderkuchen Workshop'''' from home-
made presents lo family enterprise.

I I ER daughter's search for an interesting home-made
Christmas present led Marjorie Lasar Hurd, '34, into
what amounts now to a year-round business partnership
with her daughter. The present was cookies, the decora-
tor's baked, inedible kind. Daughter Julie Hurd Brady
baked and decorated a few just before Christmas 1964.
She put them on the church Christmas tree, and the chil-
dren loved them so. and she enjoyed making them so, that
she kept on baking and enlisted her mother's help.

Around Valentine's Day, Marj and Julie took sam-
ples to the Bird in Hand, a boutique gift shop in St.
Louis's Famous-Barr. a branch of the May Company.
There, the buyer took all they had and asked for more.
Suddenly, they couldn't keep up with the orders. A
neighbor of Julie's was pressed into the baking depart-
ment. Julie kept on with the decorating. Marj took over
the business end. The enterprise was registered in Jeffer-
son County, Missouri, as the Kinderkuchen Workshop.

The designs, which look like china cookies, are
Christmas trees, stockings, Santas, and reindeer; they are

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Julie and Marj Hurd sill nationally the "cookies" they decoraie.

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After a successful first night, playwright Carolyn Potter Echols, left, discusses "Cat's Eye" with Martha Bumpas, who played the lead.

bunnies and hens; they are hearts and flowers; they are
Raggedy Annes and teddy bears and hobby horses; they
are alphabets and nursery rhymes, often to be hung on
a cookie board, a burlap-covered, framed board on
which the cookies may be looped to cup hooks, the whole
hung as a wall decoration. The cookies are used for
Christmas tree decorations, firstly, but also in masses as
centerpieces, as place cards, as party favors, and as
stocking stuffers and the piece de resistance in the Easter
basket of a favorite child.

Last fall, Marj and Julie could scarcely keep up with
the orders. Large, well-known shops in New York,
Chicago, and Dallas as well as Famous-Barr at home
placed oven-breaking orders for the cookies. This year
their wares will be available at the Christmas Shop in
Williamsburg, the Little Travellers Shop in Geneva,
and Cargo of Houston, to name a few.

With three active little boys, the oldest of them six,
daughter Julie does much of her decorating at night or
"like other people's knitting, when I can." Marj herself
has other demands on her daytime hours, and does most
of her baking and bookkeeping in the evening. "Before
Christmas, we'll be so busy we'll meet ourselves coming
and going," Marj said. "But then, who isn't?"

Winner of a national press award.
Editor Jane Clark was no news-hen.

It IS fashionable to maintain that the girl who is a
whiz at typing and shorthand will never have an interest-
ing job — that she will always type and lake shorthand.
Jane Clark. '51, dispute; this view, and offers her own
case to back up her opinion. An experienced secretary,
she was working for the publisher of the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat when the women's editor of that newspaper
resigned and the job became Jane Clark's.

That was six years ago. Last June. Jane was awarded
first place in the national writing contest of the National
Federation of Press Women, Inc.. for the best page
edited by a woman. "I had had no experience writing
or editing when Richard H. Amberg, the publisher, sud-
denly decided I should be the editor," Jane said. "It
was sink or swim — that was my training course."

The Family Page of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
offers features of interest to women, interviews with local
women or visitors who might interest women, society
news, recipes, and such syndicated material as medical

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and personal advice. The material runs fourteen to six-
teen columns a day, and covers from two to four pages.
The Globe-Democrat is a morning paper, but the Family
Page has early make-up, and Jane and her staff — one
reporter and one part-time copy-reader — work fairlv
regular nine-to-six hours.

As editor. Jane spends about a fifth of her time
writing, conducting personal interviews when time per-
mits. Most of her time is divided between copy-reading,
editing, make-up. headline writing, and planning.

"My liberal arts education has been very, very im-
portant to me," Jane said, "but I think that if you don't
have typing and shorthand you might as well not try to
get a job. Liberal arts alone is not enough."

Believing this as far back as 1951, Jane attended
secretarial school in St. Louis the year after she grad-
uated from Sweet Briar. She worked first for an advertis-
ing agency, then as secretary with a steel company, both
in St. Louis, before becoming secretary to Mr. Amberg.

Outside office hours, Jane does volunteer work
through the Junior League, and was a member of the
Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. Her
job demands most of her time, however, and although
she enjoys the writing she does as editor she does not
write as an avocation. "Outside the office," she said,
"I don't even want to write a laundry list."

Her hobby turned business is

time consuming but better than bridge,

1^ IVE years ago. Priscilla While Graham, '41, was
about to buy some expensive hand-decorated buttons, one
day, when something stopped her. "Why, I can make
these just as well myself." she thought.

Today, buttons have become a full-fledged business
for her. She paints initials, sports motifs, and other dec-
orations on buttons, to order, at a rate of four to five
thousand a month. "These things just kind of grow," she
said, explaining how the world beats a bath to her door
in Hudson, Ohio. "I sell them to stores all over the coun-
try, mostly small suburban shops. Among these are the
Carol Reid Ski Shops, and Carrousel, in Lynchburg. Peo-
ple hear about the buttons and write to me for them."

After leaving Sweet Briar, Priscilla White Graham
studied fine arts at the Art Institute in Chicago for
two years. She worked for Rand McNally, drawing
maps, and for North American Airlines, towards the end
of World War II, drawing airplanes for parts catalogs.

When she married J. Ashton Graham, she left the com-
mercial art field, although she continued painting.

She assesses property in a
rapidly developing community.

_/\lICE LEIGH CAPLES, '30, may be one of the
few women tax assessors in the United States. Certainly
she is the only one in New Jersey, where last November
she was re-elected for a second term of office in the
township of West Windsor. The population of West
Windsor is some 6,000 and Al Caples assesses the value
of property for tax purposes in an area of about twenty-
two square miles.

"To make a speech is the worst thing in the world
for me," Al confessed, "This is a job you need a great
deal of training for, however, so that campaigning is not
as heavy as it is for some political offices. All my friends
had my name on their cars — my friends like the garbage
and trash collectors, too. I spent only thirty dollars on
the campaign. One of my opponents spent a great deal
of money."

A Democrat, Al defeated the Republican candidate,
1144 — 543. An independent polled less than three hun-
dred votes. The office is a key one because in New Jersey
nearly all local monies are raised locally through real es-
tate taxes. The expansion of Princeton, four miles north,
into West Windsor, and the growing numbers of New-
York City commuters, necessitates the appraisal of prop-
erty being used in new ways. Once a potato farm economy,
West Windsor is now the site of two large industrial re-
search laboratories as well as the home of commuters.

"I work at home and keep my own hours, which is a
great convenience for those who need me," Al said.
"Often people want property looked at in the evening. I
go out and look at all properties myself. I also see addi-
tions to existing properties. I am on the Township Plan-
ning Board as a representative of municipal government,
and I sit in on meetings of the Township Committee —
five men and a mayor — although I have no vote."

When her husband. Martin H. Caples, became ill in
1959, Al took over his duties as tax assessor and per-
formed them under his direction until his death three
years later. In 1962 she was elected with no opposition.
"Being tax assessor is not a very good job, really, since
in effect you have to tell jieople how much their tax
will be." she said. "Thev can always come to me with
complaints, but not too many do."

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PERSPECTIVE ON THE COLLEGE
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AS I SEE SWEET BRIAR
By John McClenon

FROM THE FACULTY, SUGGESTED READINGS

THE CHANGING MATTER THAT THE TEACHERS TEACH

SWEET BRIAR 1977: A CHALLENGE TO THE ALUMNAE
By Paul B. Hood

TO ENRICH THE CURRICULUM
22 WHERE, OH WHERE, ARE THE DEAR PROFESSORS?
26 SIX ALUMNAE IN COLLEGE TEACHING

HAVE PROGRAM, WILL TRAVEL

DARK IS THE DAY

By Jean McKenney Stoddard, '39

CLASS NOTES

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Editor

Associate Editor
Class Notes Editor

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34
Nancy St. Clair Talley, '56
Mary Vaughan Blackwell

THE COVER

The sixteenth century woodcut on the cover shows Durer's view of
of the contemporary classroom. Suggested by Loren Oliver, of
the Department of Art, the woodcut is timeless in its humor.

VOLUME 37, NO. 2

Issued four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Sweet Briar
College. Second class postage paid at Svreet Briar, Virginia 24595.

Briar Patches

I N THIS issue about the faculty,
there seem to be gaps, created by
tliose teachers who left Sweet Briar
to teach elsewhere. Space does not
permit a tale of their adventures, but
many are still in touch witii the Col-
lege.

James A. Rawley, Professor of His-
tory, 1953-1964, now chairman of the
Department of History at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska, is the author
of Turning Points of the Civil War
(University of Nebraska Press,
1966) . Dr. Rawley had a leave of
absence from Sweet Briar, 1963-64,
to work on this book at the University
of Virginia. In the book's foreword
he acknowledges help given him by
Sweet Briar College, President Pan-
neU, and Miss Gemmell and her staff.

Gerhard Masur, Professor of His-
tory, 1946-1966, is teaching this year
at the University of California at
Berkeley. He plans to return to Sweet
Briar next year as Visiting Professor
in History.

Gertrude Malz, Professor of Greek
and Latin, 1930-1963, left Sweet
Briar for Colby College and lives in
Waterville, Maine. Last year she
taught at the University of Delaware,
but she is back at Colby this year.

Thomas Hughes, Assistant Profes-
sor of History, 1954-56, returned to
the Sweet Briar campus this fall to
deliver an address, "Technological
Change," a subject on which he has
become an authority. A visiting asso-
ciate professor at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity and a fellow of the Center for
the study of Recent American His-
tory, Dr. Hughes spoke imder the
auspices of the Virginia University
Center.

■ . . and gladly teche.

iN 1871, speaking of the value of a true teacher. James A. Garfield said,
"Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I
on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries
without him."

For each Sweet Briar alumna, there is a name to be substituted for Mark
Hopkins's. The name may differ with the alumna's interests and with her
decade of graduation, but the meaning stands: for the student or alumna and
Sweet Briar, as for the twentieth President of the United States and Williams
College, the buildings and the books are not so important as the teachers.

Sweet Briar College as it is would not exist without the dedication of its
early teachers. Teachers like Mary K. Benedict, the first president of the Col-
lege, J. M. McBryde, Jr., Gay Patteson, Mary Harley, Connie Guion, Wallace
E. Rollins, Caroline Sparrow, Virginia McLaws, Eugenie Morenus, Hugh
Worthington, and Ruth Howland, all left positions at established institutions
in order to participate in the establishment of a new one. During the years,
there have been devoted teachers whose loyalty kept them at Sweet Briar in
spite of more lucrative opportunities at other colleges or universities. There
have been, also, young teachers w^ho have begun distinguished careers at
Sweet Briar before continuing them at larger institutions, and in so doing
have given the College the stimulation of their youth and knowledge. The
power of the personalities of those in both groups has been of inestimable
influence upon those who have studied at Sweet Briar, and, it is not too
large a thing to say. upon those whom they, in turn, have influenced.

In this issue of the Alumnae Magazine, the editors examine the fac-
ulty of today — who they are, how they live, what they teach, why they are
at Sweet Briar. The issue is dedicated to them, and to those who have gone
before them, without whom Sweet Briar would not be. They live for their
students that quality of Chaucer's clerk:

"And Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche."

Qlddly Do They

V T LANCE down the list of the Sweet Briar faculty,
from Ralph Aiken, Associate Professor of English, to
Herman L. Zimmermann. Instructor in Greek and Latin.
Two things strike you: first, the cosmopolitan back-
ground of the group as a whole, and, second, the hish
level of professional preparation evidenced bv the de-
grees its members hold.

They have studied at colleges and universities all
over the L-nited States, from the University of Vermont to
the University of California at Los Angeles — small col-
leges, large universities, women's colleges, men's colleges,
Ivy League universities, state universities, schools of
theology, schools of medicine, schools of law. art and
technical institutes. Two hold degrees from Oxford,
as does the President of the College. One earned the
Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen; one at the Uni-

versity of Vienna. Giuseppe Antonio Mirri, Assis-
tant Professor of Italian, holds the Dottore in Lettere e
Filosofia from the University of Florence. Peter Pen-
zoldt. Professor of French and Comparative Literature,
holds the Licence es Lettres and the Doctorat es Lettres
from the LIniversity of Geneva. Marie-Therese Sommer-
ville. Professor of French, holds the Diplome de I'Ecole
Libre des Sciences Politiques, the Licence en Droit from
the Ifniversite de Paris, and the Licence es Lettres from
the Sorbonne. Iren Marik, Associate Professor of Music,
is a graduate of the Budapest College of Music and has
a Piano Professor's Diploma from the Liszt Academy of
Music in Budapest. Prabha Dixit, Visiting Lecturer in
Indian History and Hindi-LIrdu, and Krishnamurthy
Ganesan. Instructor in Economics, are exchange teachers
from India. And two assistants (Suzanne Taylor Gouver

Alumnae Magazine

For 35 years Miss Ethel
Ramage and English
Literature went hand in
hand at the College.

Teach

'61 in physics and Mary Jane Schroder Oliver '62 in
art) and one instructor (Byrd Stone '56 in education)
were graduated from Sweet Briar.

But it is the ability to teach, rather tlian a required
set of degrees, that earns an appointment at Sweet Briar.
"As an institution with confidence," explained Dean
Catherine S. Sims (A.B., Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D.,
Columbia University), "Sweet Briar has no hesitation in
appointing a teacher who does not have a Ph.D. and does
not plan to get one."

She named two examples, Leonora A. Wikswo, Assis-
tant Professor of Mathematics, and Lentz C. DeVol.
Associate Professor of Physics. "A less secure institution
would be afraid to do this," Dean Sims continued. "I
remember that Dean Gildersleeve of Barnard said you
don't need a degree at all to teach at Barnard, if those at

Barnard believe you are qualified to teach the subject at
a sufficiently high level. In making appointments, we
look at the training and the recommendations, but depend
mostly upon interviews within the de|)artment. Such a
group of interviews constitutes almost an oral examina-
tion. It is interesting that some who have three degrees
and lots of training don't impress those in the depart-
ment that tliey have the knowledge that should go with
degrees and training."

Of sixty-eight fulltime teachers at Sweet Briar, half
hold the doctorate. Except for Mme. Sommerville. who
holds three other degrees, every full professor holds the
Ph.D. Although no permanent appointment is made
without the Master's degree, a vacant teaching position is
open to the most qualified applicant.

Nineteen of the sixty-eight fulltime teachers at the
College have taught at the College for more than ten
years. Dean Sims considers forty-two of them settled.
"A certain amount of turnover is ine\'itable and desir-
able," she said. "We take some applicants who will leave
to complete their training, and some young applicants
who want experience at a small college before going on to
large universities. And, of course, there are some mis-
takes — on both sides. From those who stay a short
time, one generation of students benefits, and this fits
into our pattern."

Once at Sweet Briar, what does the new teacher find?
What makes teaching at Sweet Briar a unique exper-
ience? First, because it is immediately obvious, there is
the location. The country seems isolated to some and
beautiful to others; too far from great libraries and cul-
tural centers for a few ; for many others, a haven of peace
and a perfect place to raise a family. "The country atmos-
phere works both ways — as an advantage and a disad-
vantage — just as it does for students," said Dean Sims.
"The lonely tend to be the single, not tlie married, faculty
members."

Second there is — and faculty members seem acutely
conscious of this — the freedom to teach. "Most of
us come here from graduate schools, where the emphasis
is on research." said Eleanor D. Barton. Professor of
Art. "Here, the emphasis is on teaching. You can teach
all by yourself, not just as somebody's junior, junior
assistant. It's considerably more work, but you can be
your own man."

"There is academic freedom here, of course, but
it's not just academic freedom." said Ralph Aiken. "It
is freedom to teach in your own fashion. So much energy
is spent elsewhere preparing syllabi, making sure certain
things are taught in certain ways by everyone."

"How true — the height of the absurd in this was
reached at an institution where I have even heard a pro-
fessor present a sample lecture on how to lecture about
giving a lecture," said Richard H. Busch. An Instructor
of English for the first year at Sweet Briar, Mr. Busch

March 1967

The Department of Biology enjoys the latest in equipment with new quarters in Guion.

teaches History of the Theatre, Dramatic Theory, Theatri-
cal Presentation and the Seminar in Drama. "If I were
to get a job in a big university," said Mr. Busch, who
holds the Master's degree from Purdue, "I would be
teaching two speech courses, perhaps an introductory
course, and then be assistant to the designer • — which
would mean helping him build his sets."

Perhaps the freedom to teach may be linked to a
scholarly administration. President Pannell is Professor
of History and teaches Origins of the United States. Dean
Sims is Professor of History and Political Science, a posi-
tion she held actively at Agnes Scott College, prior to her
Sweet Briar appointment. Nor is tlie professor-president
new at Sweet Briar. President Benedict had been pro-
fessor of psychology and pedagogy at the State Normal
School at Warrensburg, Missouri. President McVea was
assistant professor of English as well as Dean of Women
at the University of Cincinnati. President Glass taught in
the classics department at Randolph-Macon Woman's
College before becoming assistant professor of Latin and
assistant to the director of the University Extension at
Columbia University. President Lucas taught philos-
ophy and religion at Westhampton College before becom-
ing associate dean at Radcliffe.

Some advantages the new teacher quickly recognizes
in a small liberal arts college, and at Sweet Briar, are:

■ the opportunity to teach each year at all levels
of the discipline.

■ the opportunity to read all the student production,
rather than leaving it to graders.

■ the opportunity, particularly in tlie sciences, to
do research with students.

In most departments at Sweet Briar, courses are
rotated so that new members may teach courses that
interest them. When the department is as large as depart-
ments must be in imiversities, and when there are many
graduate students, the new personnel seldom has ad-
vanced courses. "Elsewhere," quipped an associate pro-
fessor with some experience in the matter, "you have to
do some one's nasty precepts."

"Few in my position have two freshmen sections,"
said a full professor, "and I have them by choice. A
liberal arts college gives the student the advantage of
having experienced teachers straight through her college
career. No graduate fellows are given all the freshmen
courses here."

Although there are probably fewer changes in the
teaching of courses at Sweet Briar than at a large Univer-
sity, the parcelling out of courses each year gives the
professor a break. He does not cover the same material
year after year and become stale, nor does he forget
with time the special difficulties tliat the material may
hold for the students. Keeping up with changing mater-
ial and new knowledge, of course, may result in a heavier
work load for the teacher who does not teach the same
courses every year.

Alumnae Magazine

The Departmenl of Physical Eilucatl

(1 with the magnitude of ll

Four who teach Frencl

/~\ THIRD factor in the unique experience of teaching
at Sweet Briar is the student body. The new teacher finds
young women who, a popular image to the contrary, are
serious about their studies and often dedicated to them.
"My first impression of tlie College was that the students
were doing more thinking about a lot of tilings," said
John R. McClenon, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, who
before coming to Sweet Briar three years ago was a teach-
ing fellow at U.C.L.A. and, after the Ph.D. was his, an
instructor at Milton College — a small co-educational
liberal arts college he chose over Vassar — in Wisconsin.
"In fact, when I was visiting Sweet Briar, and being
interviewed, I attended the student play, and I believe
it was the individual reactions among the audience that
made me decide to come here. I could tell that the stu-
dents were not judging the play in a certain way because
they had been told to. And this year I have one of the
best students I expect ever to have. She keeps us all on
our toes, and I've learned a lot of chemistry this year
because of her. Of course, it's not an activist student
body. It doesn't rebel, and few individuals do. If I
give an assignment that's too long, my students will do it
anyway. This certainly wasn't true of my former stu-
dents."

The close relationship between faculty and students,
fostered by the isolation of the community and its small
size, is an advantage for the born teacher. One professor,

who sees more of her students and hears more of their
personal problems than she did when she taught at Smith
College, where the student-teacher ratio is comparable,
believes that this is because she is now nearer the age
of the students' mothers. An instructor, whose classes are
somewhat small, believes that her students — one of
whose wedding plans she knew before the family — feel
close to her because she is young. Wliatever the reason,
the happy relationship that alumnae remember as one
of the basic qualities of life at Sweet Briar remains.

"But students are much more outspoken than they
were when I was here," said Byrd Stone, '56, who heads
the nursery school and teaches in the education depart-
ment. "If they don't agree with you, they are much
more likely to tell you so. And if they tliink a course
is not what it should be, they make no bones about it."

"There is a certain element of frustration in my re-
lationship with the students," confessed one associate pro-
fessor of English. "I tend to see the halt and the lame,
and I know so many students only in class, students I
would like to know better — particularly the very good
ones who aren't majors, and the freshmen. I have more
opportunity to do individual w'ork with students than I
have time to do."

This closeness between students and faculty, of
course, is not every teacher's dish of tea. "Some urban
types don't want to see the students," commented a vet-

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Members of the Departments of Chemistry

Art

English

. . . and
Music.

eran professor whose advanced degrees were earned in
urban areas. "They want a more ivory-tower existence."
Not that a member of a small academic community
lives in a fish bowl. At Sweet Briar, he may live on
Faculty Row or he may live off -campus, but his personal
life will be his own to the extent that he wants to make
it so. Few faculty members live in the dormitories,
although some eat in the Refectories. Single members of
the faculty start out in apartments, as do some married
members. The larger houses on Faculty Row are two
or three family dwellings. Under certain conditions the
faculty meinbers from the College may build a house on
Sweet Briar property by renting the land on a long term
basis for $1.00 a year. Those wishing to build off-camp-
us, as well as on, may take advantage of a college policy
that provides building loans at one and a half per cent
less than the current commercial mortgage rate in the
area.

I HOSE faculty members with families will send their
children to the College nursery school and then to the
Amherst public schools. There is general agreement
that the public schools need improvement, and that the
Amherst county leaders have been slow to improve them
— funds for Project Head Start were refused, for ex-
ample, and arguments about integration have taken pre-
cedence over constructive action. But children who have
grown up on the campus have certainly not been educa-
tionally deprived. Some faculty children after reaching
high school have gone away to preparatory schools but
many who have graduated from the Amherst County
High School have distinguished themselves in college.
For example, the two Wikswo girls were both members
of Phi Beta Kappa at Sweet Briar.

When faculty children reach college age, they may
receive a grant from tlie College to pay the tuition at the
college of tlieir choice, up to the amount of Sweet Briar's
tuition. This plan was at first an exchange with other
colleges, but Sweet Briar found that more faculty chil-
dren from other colleges were coming to Sweet Briar than
Sweet Briar was sending out, so that the present plan is
the grant system.

The teacher arriving at Sweet Briar finds that there
is privacy for those who want it, and those who don't
must make their own lives. Social pressure is at a mini-
imum. The normal teaching load is twelve hours, and
most teachers agree that each hour's lecture requires five
hours' preparation. This means sixty working hours
a week, and, of course, involves study during evenings
and week ends. For some, contacts witli other members
of the faculty come largely through department and com-
mittee meetings. The more sociable make friends among
the faculty and staff, and among the Amherst and Lynch-

burg community. At lunch, there is always a chatty table
at Boxwood Inn filled with faculty. But the picture of
a big happy family of a faculty, giving cosy little din-
ners in each other's honor and discussing early runes and
late genetic discoveries over coffee, is only a fraction
correct. Perhaps one faculty wife echoes the feelings
of many when she says she and her husband are so
busy during the week that they become reacquainted
over the week end. They don't want social commitments.
But this may lead to loneliness for some single mem-
bers of the faculty, who lack time-consuming family re-
sponsibilities. It leads to discontentment among a small
number of faculty wives, who must make an effort —
difficult for those with small children — to become a
part of the Sweet Briar or the Amherst community. The
opportunities are there. Members of the faculty have
worked with the Human Rights Society, the Amherst
County Area Development Association, the Parent-Teach-
er Association, and the Demonstration Library, to name
a few county projects. Miss Caroline Sparrow helped
found the Amherst Public Health Association and raised
money at the College annually to pay a public health
nurse for the county. Since the 1940's, Miss Ethel
Ramage has administered a scholarship fund for Negroes
in the county through the AAUW. This year, a young
member of the faculty has joined with a faculty wife
to tutor in the Amherst public school. But the effort
to find the opportunities must be made by the individual.

I HE individual teacher must also find the time. For
not only does he, in some cases, spend sixty hours a week
on his courses but he also serves on standing committees
of the College. For the academic and campus affairs of
the College may be said to be run by the faculty. They
make all decisions regarding courses to be taught. Thev
set the requirements for the degree. They rule on aca-
demic matters, and on some non-academic matters, affect-
ing the students. Thus they govern registration, class
standing, advanced standing and summer work, examina-
tions, grades, and academic absence regulations, and
also the regulations on overnight absences, motoring, air
travel, drinking, hazing, and secret organizations. It was
the faculty who granted the students the privilege of keep-
ing cars on campus. The faculty elects five faculty mem-
bers to serve on College Council, in which students and
faculty join to govern campus regulations, non-overnight
absences, social regulations, and smoking regulations.
College Council has the final decision in all judicial cases
except when it votes for a penalty of suspension or expul-
sion from the College, in which case it makes a recom-
mendation of such a penalty to the Administration.

Perhaps the two most demanding committee assign-
ments are the Admission Committee and the Committee

on Instruction. The Admission Committee decides who
comes to Sweet Briar. The Committee on Instruction
decides what she shall study. To make such decisions,
the Committee on Instruction receives proposals from the
departments on change within courses and on new courses
to be offered. The Committee makes recommendations
to the faculty from its considerations, and the faculty as
a whole votes on each change. When a department is
substantially changed, an outside consultant may be
lirought in.

There are many other committees. Some members
of the faculty serve on more than one. Eighteen faculty
committees, three joint faculty-student committees, and
nine other committees on which faculty members sit are
listed for 1966-67. This list does not include all the
committees, such as the Self Study Committee, which
functions before the College is visited (once every ten
years) by the Southern Association of Colleges and Uni-
versities, an accrediting organization. "Certainly some
of the jobs done by the committees could be done more
efficiently if the faculty gave over some of its duties and
powers to an executive committee," said one professor.
"But will the faculty relinquish one of these committees?
Certainly not!"

/\ CCEPTING a heavy teaching load and these re-
sponsibilities for the function of the College, how does a
teacher find time to learn? Does he have adequate hours
and facilities for research? Is there pressure to publish?
"The College believes that all good teachers will do re-
search as a means of enriching their teaching." Dean
Sims said. "Keeping up with one's field, particularly
in those fields where content and method are subject to
change, can be a very substantial kind of research.

"The College also believes," she continued, "that
over a period of years such research will lead to at least
a modest amount of publications. But there is no pres-
sure here on faculty members to do research and to pub-
lish for purposes of prestige. Sweet Briar is interested
in good teaching and values this above other professional
qualifications."

In the Mary Helen Cochran Library are three shelves
of faculty publications. The collection is not complete,
for some Sweet Briar teachers who worked toward pub-
lication at the College and left before completing the
work have not let the College know of its fruition. There
are here works in history I Gerhard Masur. Simon Bolivar;
Eva Sanford, Mediterranean World in Ancient Times),
philosophy (Lucy Crawford. Emile Boudroux and French
Idealism), religion I Marion Benedict. The God of the
Old Testament in Relation to War, Marion Benedict
Rollins and Wallace E. Rollins. Jesus and His Ministry),
literature (Doro \eill Raymand, The Political Career

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of Lord Byron J, fiction (Evelyn Eaton, Flight), and
poetry (Philip Legler, A Change of View). There is
a whole shelf of professional journals and general schol-
arly reviews in which faculty articles have appeared. But
the College stands or falls on its teaching, not on its
research or publication.

"Anybody who's not willing to do mainly teaching
and some research doesn't belong in a liberal arts course,"
said John McClenon flatly. "But teachers ought to be
doing some sort of research. It is the only way to stay
current."

Dr. McClenon's own research project, preliminary
findings from which were published in the Journal of
Chemical Educalion (June 1966), concerns differential
thermal analysis and differential scanning calorimetry of
organic compounds. He has developed a modular ap-
proach to operational amplifiers in building instruments
for such analysis. Using the instruments in the Sweet
Briar laboratory and about forty dollars worth of addi-
tional equipment, he has constructed instruments that can
be used interchangeably to do the work of instruments
available commercially for five thousand to seventy-five
hundred dollars. He has been negotiating the marketing
of his methods. For such research, he is enthusiastic
about the Guion Science Building, where each teacher
has an ofiice with an adjoining individual laboratory.
"With this lab, I can have something going while the
students come in and out," he said. "I just check on it
occasionally."

Research in the humanities is not so easy to arrange
as research in the sciences. In the humanities, the ex-
periment cannot be set up; the researcher must be pres-
ent doing the work, which often requires books available
only at the largest libraries. If the Mary Helen Cochran
Library can order the book, as it is cooperative in doing,
the time is still difficult to come by. For research here,
as well as in the sciences, the summers are a God-send,
and the Sabbatical year a heavenly blessing. Sweet
Briar is generous with the Sabbatical leave, a custom

H. Tyler Gemmell, Librarian, takes tea during conference in Delhi.

which some institutions have terminated. At Sweet
Briar, the time is counted from the first teaching year,
not from Uie beginning of the assistant professorship or
the beginning of tenure. The opportunity to take such
a leave, with half pay for a full year or full pay for a
semester, is grantetl once every seven years, provided
a substitute may be found or the members of the depart-
ment can divide the extra load among themselves. This
provision means that it is harder to take Sabbatical
leave in small departments, for it is difficult to find
qualified replacements.

I ^U EXT year, three members of the faculty will be on
Sabbatical leave for a year; one member, for a semester.
Eleanor D. Barton, Professor of Art, will continue
studies of seventeenth century sculpture, primarily in
Italy. Betty Sue Moehlenkamp, Assistant Professor of
Physical Education whose field is the dance, will under-
take study directed towards a Master's degree. H.
Chester Markle, Jr., Associate Professor of Chemistry,
will explore recent advances and developments in physi-
cal and organic chemistry. Miriam F. Bennett, Pro-
fessor of Biology, will continue her work on periodism
in honey bees at the Institute of Zoology, University of
Munich, during the second semester.

This year, H. Tyler Gemmell, Librarian, and Thomas
V. Gilpatrick, Associate Professor of Government, are in
India as participants in the U. S. -India Woman's College
Exchange Program. Ruth M. Firm, Associate Professor
of Art, is in England pursuing studies in early nineteenth
century art. Elizabeth F. Sprague, Professor of Biology,
will spend the second semester in Europe, and the United
Kingdom, studying pollination of a species of European
Pedicularis and visiting gardens and herbaria. Elizabeth
Emerson, Associate Professor of English, spent the first
semester continuing a study of "Casuality and Coinci-
dence in the Works of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and
Henry James"; Peter Penzoldt, Professor of French
and Comparative Literature, is spending the year com-
pleting a monograph on the comparison between Goethe's
Faust and Paul Valery's Mon Faust. Lucile Umbreit
will spend the second semester studying chamber music
of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

It is apparent that each of these programs will enrich
the professor's knowledge and make his teaching more
fruitful. Such leaves widen the horizon of the whole
community. It is not necessary, however, that Sabbatical
leaves be spent solely in the pursuit of knowledge.
Lawrence G. Nelson, Professor of English, will spend
tins semester bringing to completion a critical work on the
Shakespearean Drama in the context of the Renaissance.
A member of the Sweet Briar faculty for twenty-one
years, Dr. Nelson counts this his third Sabbatical year.

The first was, according to Mrs. Nelson, "a year of
health," spent at Daytona Beach, Florida with their two
pre-school children. During this year. Dr. Nelson began
writing the critical study. The second year Mrs. Nelson
describes "a year of culture." That was 1959-1960, when
the Nelson family lived in the house of King's College
fellow Humphrey Trevelyan, a member of the scholarly
family, at Trumpington on the border of Cambridge, Eng-
land. The children attended the school a block and a
half from the house, and the family all but lived at
theatres. Dr. Nelson had access to the University Li-
brary, where stacks are open, and he did further back-
ground reading for the study there. In completing the
study, Dr. Nelson will work mostly at Sweet Briar, with
trips as necessary to large libraries.

Sweet Briar is generous in granting leaves for those
who wish to work on the Ph.D. Sometimes the College
gives assistance for such a leave. One teacher who earned
the Ph.D. after coming to Sweet Briar is Milan E.
Hapala, Carter Glass Professor of Government. He
did all the work except writing the thesis before he
began teaching at Sweet Briar in 1947. Eight years
later — two summers at the Library of Congress, a
third summer at Harvard and in New York on a grant,
the other summers at Sweet Briar or at Duke, where
the degree was conferred — he completed the thesis,
"The Evolution of Political Parties in Czechoslavakia,
1918-1938."

"If I were writing a Ph.D. thesis now, I would try
to do it before beginning to teach," Dr. Hapala con-
fessed. "It is impossible to work en a thesis and teach
full-time. I worked on mine only during the summers.
Such fragmentation of time prolonged the job unneces-
sarily, and made it hard — for my family, too. On
the one hand, it was fine for Sweet Briar to be patient
and wait for me to finish. On the other hand, I could
have done the job more quickly if I could have done it
all at once. Today, fellowships for a year of thesis-
writing are available, as they weren't twenty years ago,
and Sweet Briar will grant a leave so that candidates may
take such grants. But twenty years ago, not only did I
need a job to support my family, I also wanted to get
on with teaching."

»i ABBATIC ALS and doctoral leaves are fringe bene-
fits received by teachers at Sweet Briar. So are the mort-
gage loans, the college grants for faculty children to at-
tend college, the TIAA retirement plan, to which the
College contributes ten per cent of an individual's salary,
and major medical expense program, total disability
income insurance, and life insurance program, for which
the College pays all or a major portion of the premium.
Rents are low, other living costs are minimal, the laundry

is unusually cheap and good. The faculty as well as the
students benefit from the free lectures and concerts, the
free movies. In the library, stacks are open. Labora-
tories, musical instruments, art supplies, typewriters —
all are available. But the salaries at Sweet Briar are
still not high.

They are much higher tiian ever before. The gen-
eral level of prosperity on the campus, if the surface is
an indication of the facts, has risen in ten years — more
faculty members are buying and building houses, fewer
faculty members have that look of rumpled shabbiness
that many alumnae, and alumni, all over the country
associate with the professor. An alumna parking her
automobile at Guion late one recent afternoon, when the
Committee on Instruction was meeting there and most
students had left the building, remarked that her own
car was tlie oldest one in the parking lot, and the only
one with mud and dents.

Sweet Briar has kept up with the trend in rising
faculty salaries, and the Alumnae Association can point
with pride to its share in the achievement. But the fact
remains that the salaries at Sweet Briar are still not
high and they are proportionately lower for full profes-
sors than they are for instructors and assistant profes-
sors. It is to rectify this that the Development Fund is
aiming to raise Sweet Briar's endowment today.

I HEN what keeps the full professors at Sweet Briar?
Many have turned down offers from other institutions,
and the demand for teachers is so great today that any
of them could probably bargain his way to higher pay
elsewhere. The preceding discussion has touched on a
number of things that keep them at Sweet Briar — tlie
freedom to teach, the level of excellence of the students
and of the work they expect to do at Sweet Briar and
afterward, the location of the College, and its size. But
there is another element. Among the great majority of
the Sweet Briar faculty, there is a deep concern for the
College. Among those who have taught for years, and
those who are new to the work, lliere is love for the
College.

The faculty do not play Candide. They know the
needs of the College — large ones, like settling Sweet
Briar's present legal difficulties, and small ones, like
a faculty dining room where greater exchange among
members will be facilitated. Rut they believe in the
College.

Said one young assistant professor, settled at the
College after three years, "I'd rather be in a state-sup-
ported school that is pushing to go somewhere than in a
good small school that is standing still. But I don't
think Sweet Briar is standing still. I believe the College
will move ahead."

March 1967

For a focus on the facility view

of Sweet Briar, the editors

are pleased to have two viewpoints: one

from a faculty member of long

standing; the other from a

relative ncivcomer to the College.

Jane Belcher has taught biology at Sweet

Briar since 1940. John McClenon

began teaching chemistry at

Sweet Briar in 1965.

Perspective

on the College

|WEET BRIAR and I have changed during

By Jane Belcher

Professor of Biology

twenty-seven years here. Multiply our ages by about
2, our sizes by li/>, and you'll see what I mean. The
parallel between institution and individual falls apart
at this point. We were both green in 1940, had shapely
arches, no shortness of breath, 20-20 vision and time.
You, kind reader, finish the thought. Biology has taught
me, if nothing else, tliat change is the eternal variety in
the great dimension. Time, and a price is paid for every
change. With each change at Sweet Briar we have been
heartened by promise of progress and saddened by the
loss of a tradition or landmark. Let no alumna fear,
however, that our college has lost its fingerprint.

A computer in 1940 was a human being who com-
puted, to be found in the Treasurer's or Recorder's office.
Now it is a box at an address in Lynchburg which receives
messages from the area colleges and I have still to see
what it does with them. In 1940 we cut stencils and
hand-cranked a mimeograph machine, ending, to be sure,
with copy, but covered with ink. This same old Dodo
now resides on 3rd floor Benedict (which was Academic),
and only two old Dodos, MoUer and Belcher, use it;
everyone else has switched to Xerox.

In 1940 my salary was $1,800, a princely sum, and
solid proof that a Ph.D. paid, since as an M.A. I had
earned only $1,000 per year. In about 1944 one of our
favorite colleagues was lured away by a salary which we
all ruefully agreed he couldn't afford to turn down —
$4,400. Now I am part of the affluent society, with a Jeep
Wagoneer to prove it.

In those days we settled in and soon identified our-
selves with the college. Today the young instructor
keeps his suitcase packed, ready for offers in greener
fields. In those days much procedure could run smoothly
by gentleman's agreement and tradition: today we spell
things out, read the fine print, are over-conscious of
minutiae in commitments between institution and individ-
ual. In 1940 the jungle was a lush spot near the equator;
today it is a competitive milieu, teaming with predators —
it has crept into education just as it has into business
and government, and we feel its moist breath.

In those days the type specimen of Sweet Briar
teacher was a single woman, living on campus; if young
she occupied a single room, shared a bath with five
others, and had no kitchen facilities or living room.
Today there's a balance between male vs. female, single

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vs. married, and on- vs. off-campus living. The single-
room-sliared-bath is an anachronism.

In the '40s we had Characters: Birdie Sparrow, Mrs.
Raymond, Carl Connor, Miss Lucy, Dr. Scott. Today
I suppose we"re the characters and don't know it, but
in any case we are pallid substitutes for those stalwarts.

The efficiency which characterized our 1940 tele-
phone system departed with Dial. We had few phones,
but we had Micky-at-the-Switch-board who knew all our
haunts and habits. Today, though we all but trip over
phones, the system itself is constructed of mechanisms
wiiich insure wrong party or no party or irrelevant can-
ned messages or mysterious codes from UFO's.

J[n 1940 the students were largely WASP. Today
there's a happy sprinkling of names suggesting more
exotic backgrounds and even one living, breathing, pretty
Negro. The entering student had only two hurdles still
facing her — a B.A. and marriage; her expectation be-
yond the altar was a hazy, rosy amalgam of husband.
Junior League, comfort, children and general lived-
happily-ever-after sort of thing. Today she faces compre-
hensives before her B.A., often at least one advanced
degree, a job, marriage, Cub Scouts, PTA, and then
anotlier job. She once arrived bearing clear marks of
Latin and Alegbra; today there's much less Latin and
a lot of New Math. She spent Thanksgiving at Sweet
Briar, and any girl from the West Coast was lucky to
get home for Christmas; today skiing in Austria be-
tween semesters is not unheard of. We need to worry
about our country club reputation; now we worry about
getting girls into graduate school.

In the early '40s students had no cars and their
young men were in Morocco or the Solomon Islands.
Today we have shopping-center-sized parking lots which
are full Monday through Friday, empty on Saturday
and Sunday. During the war years life was centered
at Sweet Briar; we created amusements and extra curric-
ular programs involved the whole college community.
Today, for many, life is elsewhere, time on campus is
strictly for classes and study, not for lectures, concerts
and lighter diversions: we select between competing cal-
endar events, and rarely do we see the whole college to-
gether. In 1940 the girls had their hair waved and their

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As
I See
Sweet Briar

By John McClenon

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

l^/l Y earliest impression of the Sweet Briar student
was that she thinks more, and more for herself, than many
I had formerly known. This impression, like many I
formed at first, has been tempered somewhat. Yet many
of my first impressions of Sweet Briar still seem to me
true characteristics of the College.

Probably the first thing a new professor at Sweet
Briar notices is the academic honor system. I find it a
real pleasure not to have to act as a policeman, and to
be able to trust the students without having to be sus-
picious of them. As far as I can tell, the academic
honor system works very well.

Student scheduling of final examinations is an im-
pressive outgrowth of the honor system. Two periods
are set aside each day during the examination period,
and the student is allowed to choose when .she will take
her exams. This assures that no one will be penalized
because she has to take two exams on the same day.
It also allows for a much more relaxed examination
period, and ensures a more accurate evaluation of what
the student knows rather than what she is capable of
doing under pressure.

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March 1967

By Jane Belcher

skirts covered their knees; today they have their hair
straightened and their skirts approach their knees only
when they're standing up. Their dates were in uniform
and had crew cuts; today, well, let's skip it and hope for
something better next year.

What's new? Babcock and outdoor commencement
and traffic circles and Bookshop and sidewalks and cement
curbs and Chapel and Dean Sims and Guion and language
labs and Meta Glass Dormitory and Hindi-Urdu and
the necrotic effect of white lipstick and purple eye shadow
and a Pinkerton Crew and a nursery school and Wood-
land Road and Alumnae House.

What's gone, never to return? Manson Chapel, a
sense of leisure, Fletcher Auditorium, the old P.O., linen
napkins, the Music Box.

HAT endures — where is Sweet Briar's finger-
print? Well, girls still wear loafers; they still tend to
vote Republican while the faculty leaning is Democratic,
they still, during the February-March Doldrums, talk of
transferring, and complain about meals; the meals are
still superior to any institutional cooking any of us have
ever known: we still sing Eva Sanford's song, "A Profes-
sor's Life is not a Life of Ease," to introduce each Fac-
ulty Show. We still have 3,000 acres of woods, fields and
streams, and by walking for ten minutes a girl can be
outside the sight and sound of human activity and know
the pleasures of solitude. The most important feature,
however, is the hardest to define. From our earliest days
we've been blessed by Quality in all branches of our
community. Perhaps people like Miss Benedict, Miss
McVea, the Dews and all the rest were better than an
infant college deserved. Glancing our way these days
they probably wince from time to time, but Fm inclined
to think that they often see an Old Morality in human
behavior at Sweet Briar which they helped to establish,
and they see familiar marks of Quality in the substrate
of principles which nourishes our activity, in the teach-
ing and learning, in felicitous relations within and be-
tween segments of the community. Perhaps they push
aside the New Morality and miniskirts and shaggy dates
and intermittent sounds of bickering or arrogance, and
they call, "Come here! Miss Dutton, Mr. Manson. Dee,
Carl, Miss Lucy, Mary, Helen, Genie, Eva, Miss Sparrow,
Mr. Worthington, Dr. Scott. Mrs. Raymond, Joe! There's
a clear view, and they're going right along the way we
hoped they would!"

By John McClenon

The small size of a college is not necessarily an ad-
vantage, but it does allow close contact between students
and their professors. I remember vividly the excitement
of being able to observe practicing scholars at work
while I was still an undergraduate. This may well be
the only effective way of showing students what scholar-
ship is all about. From the faculty point of view, it
is stimulating to observe students who are just beginning
their study of a subject. They do not have a bias in
favor of the subject as the teacher does, and they may
gain some insights the teacher has missed.

The small size of classes makes better teaching
possible. I find that student difficulties in chemistry are
frequently individual problems that cannot be handled
well in a group. Students seem to form mental blocks
which cannot be readily removed without individual
attention. In addition, individual attention smoothes
difficulties created by the wide variety of preparation
within the classroom group. For example, those who
have trouble with algebra will not be able to understand
the same explanation that can be given to those who have
some knowledge of calculus.

Although our students do not all do top quality
work, they are almost all very capable. Stimulating
students to do well is a continuing problem, at Sweet
Briar as well as elsewhere. One of the things I observe
about the Sweet Briar students is that many of them are
either too polite, or too timid, to take a stand on contro-
versial issues or to question something I say in class.
I do not expect to have a whole student body of agitators.
But we certainly need more than we have, for some
degree of controversy is necessary to an intellectually
stimulating environment. The relative homogeneity of
the student body is undoubtedly a factor in this, but
more than homogeneity is involved. The recent student
decision not to invite Dr. Martin Luther King, appar-
ently because he is too controversial, is a good example.
If he really is that controversial, we ought to be exposed
to him. All ideas ought to be open for consideration
and rejection only after they have been shown inade-
quate. A somewhat generalized lack of independent
thinking by our students seems also evident, and may
be linked to this caution in controversial matters.

These criticisms within my impressions of Sweet
Briar College are by no means carping. I am optimistic
about the future of Sweet Briar. But I believe such views
must be made known in order that we mav move for-
ward. In education, to stand still is to move backward.

Alumnae Magazine

From the Faculty,
Suggested Readings

I HE nostalgia for college is often the nostalgia for
knowledge, for the thrill of knowing new developments
in a field deeply studied. For those Sweet Briar alumnae
suffering this winter from such nostalgia, the editors
asked representatives from different departments at the
College to recommend books which might be of interest
to alumnae. The replies were immediate, and the list
is exciting. Some of the books are to catch the former
student up in advancing knowledge. Some of the books
are recent publications to be read for pleasure. Here
is a rich list, to carry the adventurous reader through
the winter slump, past the spring awakening, and into
the summer hammock.

ART

GOMBRICH, E. H.. Medilalions on a Hobby Horse and

other essays on the Theory of Art, Phaidon

Press, Greenwich, Conn. 1963.
Panofsky, Erwin, Tomb Sculpture, H. Abrams, Inc.,

New York, 1964
SciiODER. R. v.. Masterpieces of Greek Art, New

York Graphic Society. Greenwich, Conn. 1965.

BIOLOGY

Beadle, George W. and Muriel, The Language of

Life, Doubleday, 1966.
Grobstein. Clifford, The Strategy of Life. W. H.

Freeman & Co., 1965.

DRAMA

Skinner, Cornelia Otis. Madame Sarah, Houghton

Mifflin Co.. 1967.
Blau. Herbert, The Impossible Theatre, MacMillan.

1964.

ENGLISH

Moore, Brian. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,
No. 4928 Delta. Dell.

The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke.
Doubleday

FRENCH

Robbe-Gkillet, Alain, Le Voyeur
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, La Jalousie, Modern French

Series, Macmillan
Simon, Claude, Le Somnambule
Simon, Claude, La Route Des Flandres
Butor, Michel, La Modification

GOVERNMENT

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., The Bitter Heritage:
Viet Nam and American Democracy, Houghton
Mifflin, 1967.

GREEK

Renault, Mary, The Mack of Apollo, Pantheon.
Else, Gerald, Origin and Early Form of Greek
Tragedy, Harvard L^niv. Press, 1965.

HISTORY

Carr, Edward Hallett, What Is History?, Knopf.

New York, 1962.
Taylor, A. J. P., English History, 1914-1945 (The

Oxford History of England, Vol. XV), Oxford

Univ. Press, 1965.

MATHEMATICS

Sharp, Evelyn, A Parent's Guide to the New Mathe-
matics, Dutton & Co., New York, 1964.

Allendoerfer, Carl, Mathematics for Parents, Mac-
millan, New York. (Paperback ed.)

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

LiTTAUER, V. S.. Russian Hussar, J. A. Allen & Co.
Ltd., London, 1965.

PSYCHOLOGY

McClelland, David C, The Achieving Society. D.
Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1961.

Gregory, R. L., Eye and Brain, (Paperback), Mc-
Graw-Hill, New York, 1966.

RELIGION

Bayne. S. F., Jr., Space Age Christianity, Morehouse,

1963.
Bayne, S. F.. Jr., Christian Living, Seabury, 1956.
Boyd, M., The Hunger. The Thirst, Morehouse
Macquarrie, J., Principles of Christian Theology,

Scribners
Ogden, S., The Reality of God and Other Essays,

Harper, 1966.

SPANISH

Coytisolo, J. .Fiestas, Laurel-Leaf Library —

No. 2845-3. Dell.
Lorca, F. G., Obras Escogidas, Laurel-Leaf Library

—No. 5013-3. Dell.
Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain,

Laurell-Leaf Library— No. 7357-3, Dell.
Cuentos y narraciones en lengua espariola,

Washington Square Press.

March 1967

I HE "education in sound learning" that Indiana
Fletcher Williams wished imparted in the school she
endowed has been a liberal education from the opening
of Sweet Briar College, but the details of that education
have changed sharply with the years. Today, the cur-
riculum taught by sixty-eight full-time professors, asso-
ciate professors, assistant professors and instructors is
more diverse than that offered in 1906, when eight teach-
ers taught everything from domestic to natural science.

The curriculum has changed with the growth of the
College, because more students have made more teachers
and more courses possible. It has changed, too, with the
times. In 1906, modern European history, from the
Renaissance to the present, was a one-semester-course;
so was psychology. Today, at least forty-two hours may
be elected in modern European history, not counting
England or Eastern Europe, and at least thirty-six hours
of psychology are available, from General Psychology
to Advanced Experimental Psychology, not counting
courses involving psychology but taught under the de-
partment of philosophy or education. Between these
two eras, there have been many steps. Miss McVea,
Sweet Briar's second president, expanded the curriculum
to include physics and social science. Under Miss Glass,
in 1929, the first inter-departmental major, American
Problems, was offered. During World War II, students
flocked to a course called Studies in the Present Crisis.
During the surge of interest in religion that followed the
crisis, that department offered a popular course named
Contemporary Issues and Christian Thought and collo-
qually dubbed "modern problems."

Basic to changes in the curriculum are changes in
the requirements for the degree. These have become
less rigid at Sweet Briar as the College has attracted
more and more young women who are prepared for the
high quality education that Sweet Briar has always
maintained. This attraction has followed the establish-
ment of Sweet Briar's reputation, on the one hand, and,
on the other, a growing seriousness among the young
women of America to obtain a first-rate education — a
seriousness not taken for granted in 1906 as it is today.

During Sweet Briar's early years, there were four
prescribed courses of study that the student might follow.
Once embarked upon a course of study, the student might
choose two electives, within the prescribed system, one
her junior year and one her senior year. Today, the
requirements for the degree are no longer rigid. The
graduating student must have lived at the College for
two academic years; she must have taken a hundred and
twenty semester hours; she must have the equivalent of
a C average, and the equivalent of a C in each course
counting toward her major. She must take English 1, 2,
Thought and Expression, during her freshman year unless
she receives advanced placement.

The Changing

Except for English 1, 2, requirements for the degree
may be fulfilled any time during the college career. They
include foreign language ability, fulfilled by a six-hour
course in college following adequate preparation, or by
two years of a foreign language begun in college, or by
passing an achievement test. They include twelve hours
of science or mathematics, at least six of which must be
a laboratory science. They include a six-hour course
in history; in the arts (art, music. History of the Theatre,
or History of the Dance I ; in social sciences, philosophy,
or religion; in classics; in literature. The total require-
ments for the degree encompass in general less than
half the hours required for the degree — a typical stu-
dent spends fifty-four hours fulfilling the requirements
and has sixty-six to choose for herself. The hours of
requirements, of course, involve many choices within
themselves. No one course is required for graduation
from Sweet Briar.

/ \ COROLLARY to the change in the requirements
for the degree is the change in the requirements for en-
trance. In 1906, a student could not begin one of the
four courses of study until she passed a rigid set of re-
quirements: if she lacked four years of Latin or three
years of mathematics as entrance units she was placed in
the Academy to make them up. Today, there is a greater
latitude in entrance requirements. Four years of English
and three of mathematics are still required, but the lan-
guage need not be Latin ( four years of any language or
three of one and two of another fill the bill.) A unit of
history is required, and a unit of laboratory science, an
unheard-of requirement in 1906.

Today the College is in a position to make excep-
tions in special cases to these requirements. In general,
however, the required entrance units constitute the basic
knowledge common to all entering freshmen. One reason
the requirements for the degree are flexible today is that
such basic knowledge indicates a wide range of actual
knowledge and of academic proficiency.

Alumnae Magazine

As jcuiics A. Gcirficlcl suggcsfcd, ci'cryfhiiig

ciboitt a college should stand second in

hnporfciiice fo its teachers. The ciirricidiim is

important, however, to the teachers and

to the students they teach. How has the curriciihim at

Sxveet Briar changed over the years, and how have

these changes affected the institution?

Illdlter That the Teachers Teach

The changes in the requirements for the degree have
changed the curriculum. So, too, has Uie change in knowl-
edge. Change in curriculum brought about by the growth
of knowledge manifests itself in two ways: in the courses
offered, and in the contents of the courses offered over a
period of years. In the mathematics department, for ex-
ample, twelve courses were offered ten years ago; this
year's catalog lists eighteen courses. Ten years ago the
basic course in mathematics was called Elementary Mathe-
matical Analysis, and was described, "A miified course
combining the essentials of college algebra, analytic
geometry and calculus." Currently, the basic course in
matliematics is called Introduction to Modern Mathe-
matics, and is described, "Modern viewpoints on selected
mathematical material including logic, set theory, axiom
systems, and the real numbers." Nine hours of analytic
geometry and calculus are offered today as compared with
three, ten years ago. Among advanced courses added
since 1956 are Topology, Numerical Analysis, and Intro-
ductory Complex Variables.

Changes in the content of courses may be demon-
strated by the Department of Biology, where genetic con-
cepts have changed radically. "The physical basis of
inheritance and its importance to man and society," read
the description for Biology 217, Heredity, ten years ago.
Today the description for the same course reads, "A
review of classical genetics; current theories regarding
the gene's influences on the organism, its behavior in
populations and its role in evolution."

The curriculum changes because of the better prep-
aration of the students entering Sweet Briar. Gone are
many of the survey courses — the material they covered
has been studied by many of the freshmen in high school.
There is, for example, no Survey of English Literature,
old English 10.3, 104. In its place is English 103, 104,
Major British Writers. Although History 1-2, Introduc-
tion to Modern European History, is offered, substantially
the same course as 195f)'s Social Studies 1-2, tliere is
also on this level History 5-6, Topics in European Civili-
zation, a course which presumes a general knowledge of

European history and serves as an introduction to his-
torical analysis. One corallary of this change is that
the senior's studies are broader and deeper than they
were in the past.

I HE curricuhmi changes with a ciianging world.
Ten years ago, Asia was beginning to be recognized as
an important and little-understood area. Today, Sweet
Briar's Program of Asian Studies covers the art, history,
politics, language (elementary Hindi-Urdu is offered this
year) and religion of selected countries. Ten years ago,
computers seemed the stuff of science fiction. This semes-
ter, a course to teach basic programming concepts in
different fields will be offered at the same time that ad-
ministrative staffs at the College convert to computer
use.

But such changes do not come about overnight, as
a matter of whim. And seldom are curriculum changes
radical. The curriculum at Sweet Briar does not follow
fads. Insuring this much-to-be-desired stale is the Com-
mittee on Instruction, a faculty group that hears recom-
mendations for changes within courses and for new
courses from the departments, considers these recommen-
dations in the light of the whole curriculum, and in turn
makes its own recommendation to the faculty as a whole.
Any change in courses offered, or in the content of courses
already listed, must have the approval of the faculty.
The purpose of the curriculum, of the requirements
for the degree within the curriculum, and of the changes
as such change seems desirable and wise, is tlie education
of young women who will use their knowledge well. In
the words of the 1966-1967 catalog, "Whether its grad-
uates elect to make a iiome or make a living, Sweet Briar
aims to have helped them to live well — intelligently and
morally. The College expects its graduates to know
how to find out about everything that interests them, and
it expects them to be deeply concerned in the continuing
adventure of man's quest for truth."

March 1967

Sipeet briar 1977:

Paul B. Hood, a graduate

of 'Pennsylvania State University,

has been Director

of Development at Sweet Briar

College since 1964.

Here, he presents a view of

primary importance

to alumnae of the College.

I J AST December the news of a proposed merger be-
tween Vassar and Yale was widely reported in the
public press. These accounts stimulated some spirited
cocktail conversation over the holidays; but they also
raised some very serious questions. If venerable Vassar
with over 1,600 students, forty million dollars of endow-
ment, and a proud tradition dating back more than five
generations is considering such a portentous step, what
has the future in store for a youngster like Sweet Briar?
Are the days of the small, independent woman's college
numbered?

In Sweet Briar's case, this is not a question of sur-
vival per se. By gradually lowering its academic stan-
dards, this College could probably exist indefinitely as
a fashionable southern finishing school. Such a course,
however, is repugnant to the board, the administration,
and the alumnae. The question, then, is not can Sweet
Briar survive; but rather, can Sweet Briar survive as a
first-rate, independent, liberal arts college?

^^tIIANTED a concerned, active governing board,
and an enlightened administration, the essential ingred-
ients of a first-rate college are good students, good teach-
ers, and proper facilities. Thanks to its hard-won reputa-
tion for scholastic excellence ( and, in a large measure to
the energy, persuasiveness, and charm of its Alumnae
Representatives on Admission ) Sweet Briar is blessed
with a wealth of well-qualified applicants. If the pres-
ent demand for college admission nationally continues
and if this college's present high standards are main-
tained, there is every reason to be optimistic about Sweet
Briar's ability to attract good students. Such recent addi-
tions as the Mary Reynolds Babcock Fine Arts Center,
the Memorial Chapel, the Connie M. Guion Science
Building, and the Charles A. Dana Library Wing have
provided physical facilities which are more than suffi-
cient for the forseeable future.

The key to Sweet Briar's survival will be its ability
to provide sufficient financing to recruit and hold teachers
of the quality of its present fine faculty. Mr. Hechinger,

Alumnae Magazine

d challenge to the Alumnae

By Paul B. Hood

in his December 17 New York Times article, said, "The
reason Vassar might want to join forces with Yale is . . .
that the independent and relatively isolated liberal arts
colleges, whether co-educational or not. find it increas-
ingly difficult to compete for faculty talent with the
universities." In Sweet Briar's case these difficulties
are compounded by the fact that this College is seeking
a particular kind of faculty member — one who is
becoming a rather "rare bird." While independent
scholarship, research, and publication are encouraged,
the Sweet Briar College faculty is primarily a teaching
faculty; and the College seeks the man or woman whose
first love is teaching undergraduates, who is concerned
with the personal development and intellectual growth of
each individual student.

To such a person there is much about this College
which is attractive. Such things as highly motivated,
intelligent students; the serenity and beauty of this rural
campus; the absence of big-city, big-campus pressures;
and no "publish or perish" policy are difficult to eval-
uate but play a part in faculty recruitment. The first
consideration, however, is financial compensation — salary
plus benefits — and it is here, I believe, that Sweet Briar
College ultimately will either stand or fall as a first-rank
college.

V^ y VER the past ten years faculty salaries at Sweet
Briar have doubled. In 1956 the minimum yearly salary
of a full professor was .85,000; today it is $10,000.
Ten years ago some instructors were receiving as little as
$3,000. Today, no member of the Sweet Briar faculty
earns less than $6,000. In addition to "take home pay,"
for every faculty member the College pays all of or con-
tributes to: a) TIAA-CREF Retirement Plan, b)
Major Medical Expense Insurance. c) Total Disability
Income Insurance, d) Group Life Insurance. A low
cost group hospital and surgical plan is offered to those
who wish to subscribe. Other benefits available to
faculty members include sabbatical leaves, sick leave,
subsidized laundry, research grants, faculty home loan

plan, and college tuition grants, for faculty children.
All this costs a great deal of money. Out of a
total operating budget of $1,6.36,000 (excluding room
and board) last year nearly $700,000 went to faculty
salaries and benefits. To keep pace nationally, it is not
unrealistic to expect that Sweet Briar will be required
to more than double that figure in the next decade.

I HREE main sources of income make up the College's
educational dollar — tuition accounts for almost 83^;
current gifts and grants another 10^; and endowment
income about 6^. (The remaining penny comes from
"other sources.") Because of its relatively modest en-
dowment of less than seven million dollars. Sweet Briar
has had to rely heavily on tuition income to underwrite
the educational program. However, with a comprehen-
sive fee of $3,100 beginning September 1967, there is a
danger of pricing Sweet Briar beyond the means of
students the College would like to have. It is, therefore,
essential to reduce this dependence on fees by vastly
increasing income from endowment and current gifts and
grants.

The Master Plan Committee, in its November 20,
1965 Report to the Board of Overseers had as its First
Recommendation "That priority be given to increasing the
endowment of Sweet Briar College from its present mark-
et value to $30,000,000 by 1976." The Committee's
Second Recommendation was. "A concentrated effort
should be made to increase unrestricted 'Annual Giving'
from its present level (about $96,000) to $300,000 by
1976." These measures, together with other steps recom-
mended by the Committee, would go far toward provid-
ing the financing the College must have for future faculty
recruitment.

The answer to the challenge presented to Sweet Briar
by the Vassar- Yale marriage. I believe, lies in this Col-
lege's ability to find. hire, and hold top quality teachers.

The financial means of achieving such a goal con-
stitutes a challenge to all those who concern themselves
with Sweet Briar.

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Jose Litnon is one of many Jaiiccrs «ho have peilurnied al Siweel Briar under the auspices of tlie Committee on Lectures and Concerts.

Emlyn Williams presented an evening of
readings from Charles Dickens in 1965.
Here he creates the part of Mr. Guppy.

Robert Frost, here with Bettye Thomas, '62,
spoke to an overflow house in Babcock.

Mme. Indira Gandlii created
conflicting reactions in her
Sweet Briar audience, 1962.

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Teachers and subject rnafter are basic

components of the community

inteUecfttal experience. To make the experience

richer, Siveet Briar has over the

years invited members of the wider intellectual and

cultural community — the world — to bring

their genius to the Blue Ridge foothills.

They Enrich the Curriculum

_/\ SHAKESPEAREAN drama direct from Stratford
in Ontario. The Salzburg Marionettes in "The Magic
Flute." Lectures by a foremost British historian, a lead-
ing French critic, a Nobel Prize-winning poet. Concerts
by prima divas of major opera companies. These are
among the entertainments offered.

Mid-town Manhattan billboards? The variety and
the quality would certainly lead you to think so. But
not at all. The announcements are from the bulletin
boards of Sweet Briar College, where through tlie years
they have come to seem commonplace. Far from metro-
politan areas where such artists and scholars usually
make appearances, Sweet Briar has been able to benefit
from the aesthetic pleasures and the new ideas tliat they
can give. The lectures and concerts are free, and are,
moreover, open to the outlying communities as well as to
the College.

The lecture and concert tradition goes back almost
to the beginning of the College community. The series
was inaugurated by the faculty in 1907, and was financed
tliat first year, according to Martha Lou Lemmon Stohl-
man, '34, in The Story of Sweet Briar College, by two-
dollar contributions from each member of the faculty
and from parents of the students. Among the first-year
attractions were the Schubert String Quartette of Boston,
a reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and a clergy-
man lecturing on "The Guises." Wrote Mrs. Stohlman,
"This was the beginning of a feature of Sweet Briar's
college year which has always been an important adjunct
to scheduled classes. Most Friday evenings later on were
taken up with outstanding speakers and performers. One
of the pleasant by-products of the lecture and concert

series has been its effect of providing a binding tie for
the whole community."

The continuing success of the series was due partly
to the devoted work of Miss Miriam H. Weaver, Associate
Professor of Music, Emeritus, who was chairman of the
Committee on Lectures and Concerts from 1926 to 1953.
Her discriminating taste, particularly in music, was the
cause of many of the fine concerts the commmiity enjoyed
during tliose years. Nor did she neglect the lectures.
At the present time. Miss Lucile Umbreit, Professor of
Music, is in charge of musical events, and Dr. Maxine
Garner, Professor of Religion, those events of lectures,
dance and drama.

[ J EFORE easy transportation led to the holiday exo-
dus, the biggest entertainment of the year was at Thanks-
giving. Later, the number of concerts was reduced, in
order to raise the quality of the selections. At irregular
intervals, tlie lecture and concert series included a Sym-
posium. During a Symposium, classes are suspended,
and the whole community profits by a series of outside
speakers and entertainers on one subject or theme. This
may be Understanding Asia as in 1955, or Modern
Science and Human Values, as in 1958, or Religion and
the Arts, as in 1963. A highly anticipated event in the
life of tlie community, a Symposium leads to fruitful
learning and lively discussion among faculty and students
of diverse talents and interests.

During tlie beginning years of tlie lecture and concert
series, Arthur Fiedler directed the Sinfonietta from the
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Sweet Briar each year.

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Dame Judith Anderson as Medea

In 1937. soon after it was formed, the National Sym-
phony Orchestra of Washington, D. C, gave a concert
at the College, and returned almost annually — and
sometimes more than once a year — until 1962. Today
the trend at the College is to enjoy small choruses and
chamber ensembles. The Quartetto Italiano, the Vienna
Octet, and the Budapest Quartet are among those who
have played at Sweet Briar. Myra Hess gave several
concerts at the College during the 1930's, and, more
recently, Philippe Entremont and Joerg Demus were
among the performers for the series. The superb Cana-
dian soprano, Maureen Forrested, has also sung here
more than once.

A memorable concert was that given by Leontyne
Price in 1950, while she was still a student at the Juil-
liard School of Music. Mrs. Alexander Chisholm, mother
of Peggy Chisholm, '51, who had sponsored and encour-
aged Leontyne Price's studies, came from Mississippi to
accompany her at that concert, one of Miss Price's first
recitals outside Mississippi.

Leontyne Price is not the only world figure to visit
Sweet Briar before becoming famous, giving many grad-
uates that great pleasure of saying, "I remember him
when . . ." Mme. Indira Gandhi was well-known when
she visited the College in 1962, but she had not yet be-
come Prime Minister of India. Vladimir Nabokov was
an established writer, but had not attained the notoriety
Lolita brought him, when he lectured in 1943 on Tolstoi
and on "A Century of Exile: The Strange Fate of Rus-
sian Literature." Dean Rusk commanded respect as the
president of the Rockefeller Foundation, rather than as
the Secretary of State, when he delivered the Commence-
ment address in 1954.

But many have come to Sweet Briar after they were
famous. W. H. Auden was recognized as one of Eng-
land's foremost poets before his visit to the College.
Robert Frost was the grand old man of American poetry
when he gave a reading from his works, peppered with
his comments on the world scene, in the Mary Reynolds

Babcock Fine Arts Center in December, 1961. Because
of the weather and tlie distance, Mr. Frost's coming could
not be certain, and was not publicized. Nevertheless, he
did come, pronouncing the trip far easier than many
he normally made to New England colleges, and the new
auditorium was filled and overflowing.

Eleanor Roosevelt was perhaps the leading woman in
America when she addressed Sweet Briar students in
1948. Her visit was due not to planning by the Com-
mittee on Lectures and Concerts, but to the efforts of
several students. Wayne Stokes, a member of the Inter-
national Affairs Club, rode to Sweet Briar on the train
with a Chatham Hall student who said Mrs. Roosevelt
was to visit that school within several weeks. It was the
International Affairs Club that wrote to invite Mrs.
Roosevelt to stop at Sweet Briar on her way to Chatham
Hall. Immediately came a polite, typewritten refusal,
with a postscript in Mrs. Roosevelt's hand — since
dictating the reply, she said, she had discovered that
she could stop over at Sweet Briar if she could speak to
the students at noon on Saturday. It was Midwinters
dance week end, and boys visiting the campus helped put
folding chairs in the gymnasium, already decorated for
the dance that night. Mrs. Roosevelt spoke to a full
house. The President of the College, Dr. Martha Lucas,
returning early from a trip to greet Mrs. Roosevelt, dis-
covered that the students had arranged to introduce
the speaker themselves, and to entertain her at luncheon
afterwards.

In ADDITION to lecturing, many of the writers and
poets have spoken to students in small, informal groups.
Students crowded the parlor in Reid to ask questions of
Emily Bowen in 1954, when she came to deliver the Phi
Beta Kappa address. Katherine Anne Porter had break-
fast with students in the Boxwood Inn on one of her two
trips (1953 and 19591 to the College. Earlier, Gertrude
Stein seemed reasonable so long as she explained herself

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in person, according to Mrs. Stohlman. John Ciardi
11956, 1963), Mark Van Doren (1959), Flannery O'Con-
nor (1963) and Reynolds Price 1 1964) are among many
who have impressed the community witii their gracious-
ness as well as with their scholarship and genius.

Lest the peace and beauty of the Sweet Briar campus
make tlie troubles of the outside world seem too distant
for concern, the lecture and concert series brings men and
women whose knowledge of, and involvement in, world
affairs makes these immediate for the community. In
the early 1930's Norman Thomas described socialism to
a Sweet Briar audience; 20 years later, he again visited
the campus. Norman Cousins discussed his ideas of
world unity in 1954 and in 1962. Vera Micheles Dean
elucidated foreign policy in 1943, 1955 and 1960: Sena-
tor Fulbright, in 1949. Journalists Inez Robb and Harri-
son Salisbury are among those who have kept the com-
munity abreast of current events. Literary critic David
Daiches (1957), drama critics Walter Pritchard Eaton
(1950) and Harold Clurman (1953), sociologist Mar-
garet Meade (1944 and 1962), historian Arnold Toynbee
(1958), economist Barbara Ward (1964), Artie explorer
Sir Hubert Wilkins (1949), and UNICEF director
Maurice Pate ( 1962 ) have widened the horizons of the
community.

/"^^ LONG list of speakers has supplied a French
accent to the series. Yale Professor and French critic
Henri Peyre spoke at the College in 1944. 1953 and 1959.
Writer and translator Justin O'Brien lectured in 1957;
Germaine Bree, in 1961. Former Ambassador Henri
Bounet, Cultural Councillor Edward Morot-Sir and mem-
bers of the French Embassy staff at Washington have
been guests of the College.

Good theatre has come to the community through
the series as well as through student drama groups.
Judith Anderson and Emlyn Williams brought Medea

and Dickens, respectively, to Sweet Briar audiences.
The Canadian Players of Stratford presented Othello
(1957), King Lear (1961) and Henry IV (1963);
Margaret Webster's company put on a modern-dress ver-
sion of Julius Caesar (1950) and Miss Webster gave a
Shakespeare reading in 1964 and lectured on drama in
1966. Sometimes one person created a theatre. Mrs.
Patrick Campbell, old, lame, and half-blind in the 1930's,
became young and powerful when she spoke. Ruth
Draper (1944, 1954) created her own kind of drama
and Joyce Grenfell, the British monologuist, made a
whole audience ache with laughter.

Martha Graham's dance amazed the campus audience
in 1932. Jose Limon appeared at Sweet Briar soon after
her, and returned better-known in 1950, 1953 and 1965.
Among other dancers have been Merce Cunningham,
Pearl Primus, and Charles Weidman.

Among theologians who came to the College through
the Eugene William Lyman Lectureship series were John
Baillie, Canon Charles E. Raven, and Henry P. Van
Dusen.

Recently, the dedications of new buildings have
been occasions for scholars to speak at the College.
Last spring, at the Connie M. Guion Science Building
dedication, Bentley Glass, national president of Phi Beta
Kappa and a leading geneticist, opened a week-end pro-
gram which included lectures by Henry Guerlac, science
historian, and Helen Dodson Prince, solar astronomer.
The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
will be among the speakers when the Memorial Chapel
is dedicated diis spring.

Among programs of particular interest in this year's
lecture and concert series have been the exciting Gregg
Smith Singers, Sir Robert Menzies of Australia, Margaret
Webster, Ferenc Nay, Juan Lopez-Morillas and John
Covelli. Scheduled for the spring are Governor John H.
Chafee of Rhode Island, Marietta Tree, first U. S. woman
ambassador to the U. N., and Loren C. Eiseley, who will
give the Phi Beta Kappa address.

Eleanor Roosevill came to Sweet Briar, 1948. at the invitation of students.

Philippe Entremont

President Pannell welcomed President Emeritus Glass and Professor Emeritus Frazer at Sweet Briar House.

IPhere, Oh IPhere,
Are the Dear Professors?

Yy ERTHA PFISTER WAILES, '17, Associate Profes-
sor of Sociology, Emeritus, lives at Mt. St. Angelo, where
her husband is farm manager. Since 1960, Mrs. Wailes
has been at Sweet Briar College as Visiting Lecturer in
Sociology, or in Economics; as Assistant in Academic
Counselling in the Office of the Dean, or as a member
of the interviewing staff of the Admission Office. This
year she is a visiting lecturer at Randolph-Macon Wom-
an's College. She is active in the Amherst County Health
and Welfare Council.

Mrs. Wailes was a student during the administrations
of Miss Benedict and Miss McVea; she taught at the
College imder Miss Glass, Miss Lucas and Mrs. Pannell.
She has, perhaps, a longer record of association with
the College than any other living person, and her con-
tinued association is remarkable in only one regard: she
retired in 1960. Yet her work with the College after re-
tirement is not peculiar to her. Nor is her pace.

For although Sweet Briar College, along with most
other such institutions, has a compulsory retirement age,

the College does not sever its connection with the retir-
ing professors as some institutions do. At sixty-five, the
compulsory retirement age, most minds are indeed not
ready for the pasture.

For those who look forward to research, perhaps
elsewhere, fine and farewell. For those who wish to con-
tinue teaching, when the occasion presents itself at Sweet
Briar, excellent and hail. Some of the twenty-one emeri-
tus professors, listed in the present College catalog and
so designated for the first time this year, have preferred
retirement to continued teaching. Some have turned
to scholarly pursuits frustrated by the demands of class-
rooms and teaching. Some have taught since retirement.
Some are teaching still. Twelve have remained in the
Sweet Briar area.

Of tliem, four besides Mrs. Wailes have taught at
the College since retiring. Dr. Ethel Ramage. Professor
of English Emeritus, who retired in 1963, was visiting
lecturer in English during the first semester, 1964-1965.
Prior to that, she helped interview students for the Admis-

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sion Office and was Assislanl in Academic Counselling.
Dr. Ramage, still active in Ascension Episcopal Church
(Amherst) and a member of the Ascension choir, lives
with her sister, Dr. Sarah Thorpe Ramage, in tlie house
they built on campus in the early thirties. Miss Sarah
still teaches at the College.

During the illness of a member of the department.
Dr. Florence Hague, Professor of Biology, Emeritus,
returned to teach biology. Until this fall Dr. Hague
lived in Lynchburg and was a regular visitor to the
campus for lectures, concerts and other events. She
remained actively interested in ornithology, and was a
member of the Lynchburg Bird Club and the Virginia
Society of Ornithology. Dr. Hague's present address is
3420 Shamrock Road, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dr. Elisabeth Moller, who came to the College in
1932, retired in 1965 but has yet to leave the College.
She has been Visiting Lecturer in Psychology during the
two years of her retirement, and lives in her house near
the campus which is always open to alumnae.

Another emeritus professor returned to Sweet Briar
to teach after retiring. Dr. Preston H. Edwards, Pro-
fessor of Physics, Emeritus, referred to himself as
"Professor Resurrectus" when he returned to teach from
1947 to 1949, following retirement in 1943. He came
again for the academic year 1953-1954. Since 1943 he
has taught also at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hamp-
den-Sydney College, the University of North Carolina,
and, for a year, at the South Carolina high school he at-
tended. Alumnae who have returned to the College
recently remember that Dr. Edwards's son. Dr. Ernest

Edwards, Professor of Biology, was cameraman, editor
and narrator for the movie about the ecology of the Col-
lege campus. Dr. Edwards pere lives now at Shelton
Home, Hampton, Virginia.

Some emeritus professors have left Sweet Briar
to teach at other institutions. Mme. Cecile Johnson,
Associate Professor of French, Emeritus, went first to
Skidmore and now teaches at the University of Maryland.
She lives in Hyattsville. Dr. Johanne Stochholm, Pro-
fessor of English, Emeritus, retired in 1959 after thirty
years at Sweet Briar. She returned to Denmark as
Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the University
of Aarhus, and is teaching there this year. In addition,
she translates scholarly articles on subjects ranging from
musicology to Russian literature.

With the extra time retirement has brought, Dr.
Stochholm has completed Garrick's Folly, a book de-
scribing the first Shakespeare Jubilee Festival at Strat-
ford in 1769. It was published, in London and New
York, in 1964.

/ \ NOTHER emeritus professor engaged in active
scholarship on another campus is Dr. Belle Boone Beard,
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. Dr. Beard is studying
centenarians under a research grant from the National
Institute of Health. She is pursuing her present project,
"Demonstrated Human Abilities at Upper Age Limits,"
at the University of Georgia, although she shares a house
at Sweet Briar, "West Windows," with anotlier emeritus
professor. Dr. Marion Benedict Rollins. Dr. Beard, who

"Where, oh where, are the old professors?

Lost now in the wide, wide world," caroled the seniors

in a by-gone step-singing lyric.

But professors emeriti of Sweet Briar arc neither lost nor strayed.

Often they are in libraries, laboratories, or classrooms

and they are sometimes at Sweet Briar.

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retired in 1963, taught in New Mexico during 1964 and
says now she misses teaching but enjoys devoting full
time to research. Hers is no ivory tower existence, how-
ever. Last year she gave three papers on centenarians,
in New Orleans, in New York, and in Vienna. While in
Europe she visited institutions and clinics for older peo-
ple and interviewed every person over a hundred she
could find, as she does when she travels in this country.

Dr. Dorothy Thompson, Rockefeller-Guion Professor
of Chemistry, Emeritus, another scholar, is at Boston
University doing research on a chemical that might be
of use in treating epilepsy. Jessie M. Eraser, Professor
of History, Emeritus, is working, in Charlottesville, on
the Life and Letters of Arthur Lee.

Closer to home. Dr. Gladys Boone, Professor of
Economics, Emeritus, has returned to her old love, his-
tory, in collecting material on the life of R. H. Tawney,
an English economic historian whom she knew slightly
and with whom she shared interests in history, industrial
relations and international relations. Dr. Boone lives
on Woodland Road, in a house she built adjoining Miss
Tyler Gemmell's, and is secretary of the Amherst Com-
munity Action Groups.

Ernest T. Zechiel, Professor of Music, Emeritus, has
continued composing in his home off Dairy Road, and in
winter, in Orlando, Florida. Another musician, Miriam
H. Weaver, Associate Professor of Music, Emeritus, lives
nearby and teaches music to private pupils. Mr. Zechiel
is joined in Orlando each winter by Dr. Ruth B. How-
land, Professor of Biology, Emeritus, who lives on Wood-
land Road.

t ^ EVERAL other emeritus professors who have not
returned to Sweet Briar as visiting lecturers have con-
tinued to live at Sweet Briar, contributing their work
to the College and the community. Among these is Dr.
Marion Benedict Rollins, who made an extensive study
of methods of academic counselling of freshmen and
sophomores at twenty-one colleges similar to Sweet Briar,
in 1963-1964, the year following her retirement. With
a house at Sweet Briar, Dr. Rollins spends summers at
Adelynrood, in South Byfield. Massachusetts, the retreat
and conference center of the Society of the Companions
of the Holy Cross. This summer she was elected for a

Dr. Rice, Physician and Professor Emeritus.

second three-year term to be Companion-in-Charge of
the Society, a duty she says keeps her too busy to be
nostalgic for the classroom. Dr. Rollins was at Sweet
Briar in 1964 for the ground-breaking of the Memorial
Chapel, and she plans to be present for a part of the
dedication ceremonies this spring. The Chapel is, for
her as for many, a dream she has worked hard to make
come true.

Dr. Carol M. Rice, College Physician and Profes-
sor of Hygiene, Emeritus, lives in the house she built
in the thirties, and is able to relieve Dr. Whitehead, the
present college physician, from time to time, and to
help with physical examinations. The chairman of the
Amherst County Health and Welfare Council, Dr. Rice
is on the board of directors and chairman of mental
health for the Lynchburg League of Women Voters. She
is active, too, in the Lynchburg Medical Society. She
continues her stamp collection, and retirement has not
dulled her golf game — she plays in the Virginia Senior
Women's golf tournament and is on the Boonsboro Coun-
try Club women's golf team. Each year she takes a
course at the College.

Harriet H. Rogers, Professor of Physical Education,
Emeritus, shares with Dr. Rice a love for golf — she
too plays in the Virginia Senior Women's matches and on
the Boonsboro women's team — and an active interest
in the Lynchburg League of Women Voters. She was
recently made an honorary member of the U. S. Field
Hockey Association, and enjoys field trips with the
Lynchburg Bird Club and the Virginia Ornithological
Society. She lives at "Red Top," which she and Miss
Lucy Crawford built in the twenties, the first privately
built faculty house on campus.

Carl Bricken, Professor of Music, Emeritus, was
active on campus as "clerk of the works" for the con-
struction of the Memorial Chapel. He lives on Old
Stage Road, across the railroad tracks from the Sweet
Briar station, in a house he and Mrs. Bricken restored
while he was teaching. Mrs. Bricken owns and operates
the Amherst Gift Shop, where several of Mr. Bricken's
paintings — he takes classes at the Lynchburg Art Cen-
ter — are on display.

Dr. Arthur S. Bates, Professor of French. Emeritus,
who retired early because of ill health, lives in his apart-
ment on Elijah's Road with his wife, Caroline, who is

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Director of Vocational Guidance, and his daughter,
Vicky, a freshman at Amherst County High School. He
pursues his hobby, photography, and attends the lectures
and concerts on campus.

Dr. Florence H. Robinson, Professor of Art, Emeri-
tus, lives in Lynchburg and is active with the Westmin-
ster Presbyterian Church and the Lynchburg Arts Cen-
ter. Since retiring in 1953, Dr. Robinson has made three
trips to Italy and the Near East.

Virginia R. McLaws, Director of Art, Emeritus,
lived with her brother-in-law and sister, the late Gen. and
Mrs. E. P. King, after her retirement in 1938, and went
with them to the Philippines and to Washington. Later
they lived in Atlanta, Savannah, and Sea Island. Now
in her ninety-sixth year, Miss McLaws spent summers at
Saluda, North Carolina, until recently.

Dr. Adeline Ames, Professor of Biology, Emeritus,
lives in Long Beach, California. Although she is now in
poor health, she has continued her interest in botany.
The Adeline Ames greenhouse at Sweet Briar, named in
her honor, has been moved from its old location, behind
the Refectory, to the new location near the Connie M.
Guion Science Building.

/~\ LTHOUGH she was not made professor emeritus
ijecause she left Sweet Briar before retiring, a discussion
of Sweet Briar's retired professors is scarcely complete
without mention of Dr. Mary Ely Lyman, Dean and
Professor of Religion at Sweet Briar from 1940 to 1950,
who left to become Jesup Professor of English Bible at
Union Theological Seminary, the first full professorship
ever offered there to a woman. Retiring from the Semi-
nary in 1955, Dr. Lyman, who is an ordained minister of
the Congregational Church, spent eight months travelling
around the world, preaching and addressing faculty and
student groups. During the 1956-57 academic year she
lectured at the Seminary and taught a course at Vassar.
In 1958 she was visiting professor in the department
of religion at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Her
interest in Sweet Briar has remained very active. She
gave the Baccalaureate sermon at the College in 1962,
and was active in raising funds for the Memorial Chapel.
One more beloved emeritus (or is it, for one so
distinctly feminine as well as learned, emerita?! is Dr.
Meta Glass, President Emeritus, who returned to the
College so many times after her retirement to Charlottes-
ville in 1946 that she is a real presence even to many
alumnae who were students afterwards. Her last official
visit before she became incapacitated due to illness was
the occasion of the ground-breaking for the dormitory
which bears her name. Miss Meta's concern for the
College was like that of other emeritus professors — a
spirit of continuitv that gives each generation of students,
often unknowing, a firm foundation for their education,
under other professors, at Sweet Briar.

C(Mcge teachers exercise untold

influence upon their students. Often because of encouragement

from faculty members at Sweet Briar, alumnae

of the College have themselves become college teachers.

Six Alumnae in College Teaching

P EW Sweet Briar alumnae have returned to teach
at Sweet Briar College, but a number have taught, and are
teaching, at other institutions. Often they find this call
to teach, because of the encouragement of a favorite
professor at Sweet Briar; they choose the institution,
often, because their husbands work near them. With
more community colleges opening, and more Sweet Briar
graduates continuing their studies at graduate schools,
the ranks of Sweet Briar alumnae teaching on the col-
lege level may be expected to swell. But these ranke
have never been empty. A glance down the alumna
roster shows many college teachers from each decade of
graduation.

An outstanding teacher who was graduated more
than thirty years ago is Evelyn Lee Way, '25, Professor
of Latin and acting chairman of the Department of
Classics at the University of Missisippi. A native of
Raleigh, North Carolina, Evelyn Way earned the M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees at the University of North Carolina
and began her career at the University of Mississippi
in 1931. With more than six thousand students, the
university is not so close-knit as a small liberal arts col-
lege, but the relationships between student and teacher
can be close. "In my department, with comparatively
few students, the students are very close to us," Miss
Way said. "We have three graduate students now, and
ten undergraduate majors. A few of our majors go on
to graduate school, but not many. We get more minors
than majors."

A graduate from the following decade, Julia Sadler

deColigny, '34, is Associate Professor of English, Aca-
demic Dean for the freshman class, and Dean of Stu-
dents, at Stratford College, in Danville, Virginia. She
is one who has returned to Sweet Briar professionally,
to be The Assistant Dean from 1962-63. Prior to this
she had been head of St. Michael's School, an Episcopal
day school in Richmond. The death of her husband
plummeted Julia back into the academic world, but she
had earned her M.A. at Columbia University long before,
and her association with Sweet Briar and with its Alum-
nae Association had included membership on the Board
of Overseers. The youngest of her four children, Julie,
is a junior at Sweet Briar this year.

Julia finds the combination of teaching freshman
English and administering academic affairs at Stratford
particularly stimulating as Stratford expands this year
from a two-year to a four-year institution. "The college
enrollment is a little over four hundred now," she said,
"and we expect to have sixty in next year's junior class,
the first one for Stratford. The change probably won't
increase the eventual enrollment more than fifty students.
We are planning a hmnanities major for all students,
with a choice of minors in particular areas of concen-
tration. The course will be liberal arts, with a program
of teacher certification and some practice teaching in the
Danville schools. You can see what a job it is, the
more because Stratford was formerly a preparatory school
with two years of college, and is in transition now, be-
coming a four-year college."

Helen Blair Graves Smith, '48, to proceed a third

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Julia Sadler cleColigny, '34 is clean and associate professor at growing Stratford College.

decade, is college organist and Instructor of Music at
Western College for Women, whose size (five hundred
students) and aim (liberal arts) are very like the Sweet
Briar Blair knew. "That is one of the tilings 1 like about
it," Blair said. "I feel as if I've gone back twenty years.
Occasionally I see a student who reminds me so much
of some one I knew at Sweet Briar that I have to remem-
ber where I am.

"My husband teaches at Miami University, here in
Oxford, Ohio, and we find it works well for us to be
teaching in different institutions. I got my master's in
music education at the University of Michigan before I
married, and began teaching here three years ago, when
my youngest son was two. That year and the next I had
a wonderful housekeeper from Georgia, who was as
homesick for the South as I was, and she made the
teaching possible. I hadn't planned to start so soon,
but in a tiny town like ours you don't let a position go
by. Now with the boys five, eight and nine, it is much
easier.

"A good many Miami faculty wives teach at West-
ern," said Blair, who teaches music theory and piano.
"Mine is a very good job for my kind of life, and I'm
not bucking society one bit to be a housewife and a teach-
er at tile same time."

Anotlier alumna teaching in an institution somewhat
similar to Sweet Briar is Sally M. Gearhart, '.S2. Asso-
ciate Professor of Speech and Drama at Texas Lullicran
College, Sequin, Texas, which, although diurch-rclated

and co-educational, is also strongly liberal arts and
teaching-oriented. "I find the atmosphere of the campus
here very like that at Sweet Briar, which is one reason I
like it," said Sally. "The faculty and the students are
very close, and the professors are dedicated to teaching
rather than to research. I find the stimulation in the
classroom far more dynamic with boys and girls together,
however."

^ALLY GEARHART taught at Bowling Green State
University while working on her master's degree, which
she received in 1953. She taught, too, at the University of
Illinois, from which she received the Ph.D. degree in
1956. Her first post after completing the degrees was
at Stephen F. Austin State College in Nacagochus, Texeis.
She went to Texas Lutheran in 1960, and has been for
four years chairman of the Department of Speech and
Drama, a position she pioneered. "In 1960, there was
no speech department here." she said. "Now we have
a staff of three, with an extra half-time teacher. This year,
there are thirty majors. A surprising number of our
students go on to graduate school, and many pull down
top national scholarships."

Teaching in a predominantly liberal arts college for
women should make the recent Sweet Briar graduate
feel right at home, but it may make her too much so.
"I feel about the same age as most of my students,"
confessed Diane Hatch, '64, Instructor in Latin at Mary

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Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Diane
earned tiie masters degree at the University of North
Carolina, which she chose for the same reason she chose
to teach at the college level: the advice and encourage-
ment of her professors at Sweet Briar, especially during
her senior year. She says, "My professors at Sweet
Briar did indeed support and encourage and advise me
when I was considering college teaching, and for this
1 am very grateful to them." Diane will teach again
next year and plans to begin work on the Ph.D. this
summer. She adds, "I am definitely going to get it
(the doctorate) though under just what arrangement in
the future. I do not yet know."

Although Mary Washington, a state-supported col-
lege with two thousand students, is very different from
Sweet Briar, the beginning teacher's opportunities are
much the same. Diane teaches twelve hours, a standard
load for Mary Washington. Two of her classes are basic
courses and two are advanced — one is Special Studies,
a seminar for majors.

V^OLLEGE teachers are much in demand, and will be
more in demand as more colleges open their doors.
To encourage women to fill this demand, the Danforth
Foundation Graduate Fellowships for Women offer
grants, based on ability and need, to cover tuition, trans-
portation and household assistance to the married woman
who needs further study in order to teach at the college
level. The fellowships were first available for the aca-
demic year 1965-66; a member of the second Danforth
group this year is Helen Missires Lorenz, '50, who lives
in Jeunaica, N. Y., and is preparing the Ph.D. in French
at New York University. A member of the first Sweet
Briar Junior Year in France group, in 1948-49, Helen
earned the master's degree at Columbia following grad-
uation, taught a year at Chatham Hall School in Virginia,
and would have returned to teach at Sweet Briar the
following year had she not retired, temporarily, to marry
Richard J. Lorenz, a salse executive with an addresso-
graph corporation. There followed moves to Long Is-
land, where she taught high school French; to Illinois,
where she taught fifth grade; to Minnesota, where she
was a substitute teacher for the public schools and a busy
modier of three boys.

When the move to Jamaica seemed a more perma-
nent one, and with her mother there to help look after
the boys, now four, six and eight, Helen began her studies
last semester with two days of classes. This semester,
she is concentrating ail three subjects in one day. On
that day she leaves home at noon — the trip to the
Village location of the university takes an hour and a
quarter — and returns sometimes after nine. "The really

difficult part is getting the books." Helen said. "I am
fortunate that the new Queensborough Public Library,
near me, has an excellent collection of contemporary
French works, and I can study there while my youngest
son is in nursery school, rather than travelling to the
City and finding the book out.

"It is not an easy way to get a degree, but I have
always planned to do it. In fact. I had hoped to do
it sooner, but the cost and the moving kept me from it.
The Danforth Foundation fellowship made it possible."

It will take at least three years to earn the Ph.D., and
Helen hopes to begin teaching immediately. Where she
teaches will depend upon where her husband's work takes
him. But with community colleges opening in many
places where higher education has not been located before,
and with college teachers much in demand in established
institutions, she looks forward to a long career.

/~\ PROGRAM in Asian Studies, close to the one
established at Sweet Briar in 1961. is that at Rockford
College in Illinois. And head of the Rockford program
is a former Sweet Briar major in English, Dearing Lewis,
'34, who has been allied with the program since she went
to Rockford in 1953 and head of the program since 1961.

Although it may seem a far cry from English to
Sanskrit, to Dearing Lewis the switch came by easy
stages. With almost as many French as English courses
at Sweet Briar, she became director of comparative lit-
erature at Rockford, having received the M.A. at the
University of Chicago and the Ph.D. at the University
of Illinois. "Now I teach courses in Asian literature
and philosophy, with strong emphasis upon India, China
and Japan. We also have selected Asian readings in the
freshman composition course," she said.

Rockford was founded as a woman's college in 1847,
and was for more than a century a downtown institution.
In 1956 the college became co-educational, keeping the
enrollment near 450, half of whom are now men. The
campus completes this year the move to the country. "We
are building as fast as we can, where prairie used to
be," Dearing Lewis said. "A new library and a new
science building are under construction now."

Before becoming the director of Asian Studies at
Rockford, Dearing was Harvard Fellow in East Asian
Studies, 1959-1960. Three years later, 1962-63, she was
Fulbright Professor of American Literature in India:
the first semester, at LTtkal University; the second, at the
University of Gorakhpur.

She visited Sweet Briar the year Sweet Briar began
its own Asian Studies Program, and was at the College
more recently, in 1965, to be initiated into the Theta of
Virginia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

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Hdue Program
IPill Trauel

V CONTINUING education — that phrase has become
almost mystical during the last few years. Easy for those
in urban areas; more difficult for those who live in small
towns. Easy for institutions large enough for branches,
or close to educational centers; difficult for the small,
private college. And when that small private college is
situated in the foothills of Virginia, doubly difficult.

But not impossible. A step toward a program of
continuing education is being taken this year, and sev-
eral Sweet Briar clubs have benefited from it already.
Called the Alumnae Association's Travelling Faculty Pro-
gram, it is an effort to help alumnae keep up with
scholarship and with the College. Fourteen members
of the faculty, and the Dean and the President of the
College, have graciously agreed to participate in the
program, to bring to Sweet Briar Clubs and related
groups lectures from art and the new math, piano and
organ recitals, to tennis and hockey clinics.

t J UCH a lecture being given this month is "Florentine
Art Then and Now; Changing Views of the Renaissance."
It will be heard by members of the Sweet Briar Club
of Wilmington, Delaware, and their guests, at the Tower
Hill School at 8 p.m. Monday, March 27. Dr. Eleanor
D. Barton, who will lecture, is giving her time and her
talents so that all proceeds from this lecture will go to
the Committee to Rescue Italian Art. Such a benefit
lecture, to meet the tragic needs of the city of Florence,
demonstrates interests and concerns that Sweet Briar
alumnae have always shared.

Other lectures offered are a part of the progr;mi

proper rather than benefits in themselves, although any
of the lectures might be used to raise funds for, say, a
Club scholarship fund. Several Clubs in a geographic
area may join to present such a lecture, recital or panel
discussion. And a Sweet Briar Club may join with an-
other group of institution to present a lecturer as a com-
munity service. Clubs which have participated in the
Travelling Faculty Program this year include Baltimore.
Charlottesville and Chicago. Mrs. Pannell has spoken to
the Seattle Club and the Southern California Club.

/~\ STAR of the program is Dr. Ernest Edwards, Pro-
fessor of Biology, whose film on Sweet Briar's ecology
takes views through a whole year on the campus. Dr.
Edwards intersperses scholarly ecological date with ob-
servations on the nesting habit of a favorite blue bird.
Other faculty members in the program are Miss Jane
Belcher and Miss Miriam Bennett, biology: Miss Maxine
Garner and James Kirby, religion; Richard Rowland and
Milan Hapala,, Asian studies; Lawrence Nelson. English
literature; Miss Mary Ann Lee, mathematics; Miss
Katherine Macdonald. physical education ; Mrs. Betty Sue
Moehlenkamp, the dance; Miss Iren Marik and John
Shannon, music.

A visiting lecturer will receive a standard honorar-
ium of fifty dollars, plus any expenses incurred, all of
which costs are shared equally by the Club, the Alumnae
Association, and the College. The Alumnae Office acts
initially as liaison between a club requesting a speaker
and the faculty member whose field and availability
fit the club's need.

March 1967

These lines were written two months a}^<>, in fhe ilays now reiueinbered

as perhaps the darkest of the Florentine flood.

With gratitude and joy if can now be reported that due to the

super-human courage, effort, help from within and wit/jout, and from

the fortitude of the Florentine spirit, the

situation is incredibly normalized.

"Ci siamo fatti coraggio" is fhe keynote — and now the stores are

open again, ready and waiting for business.

Dark Is the Day

By Jean McKenney Stoddard, '39
American Embassy, Rome

IT IS raining.

It is cold. Cold and damp and muddy.

The Arno River is brown and ugly and swirling
under the Ponte Vecchio, and the water is full of naphtha,
floating debris, and rubbish.

It is now one p.m. and today is the 5th of December,
one month after the flood. I am sitting in a bar on the
via Guicciardini, having a tea and a toast, hoping that
I won't have to talk to anyone and that no one will talk
to me. I've heard too much already.

This morning I've seen men cry and women have
wept on my shoulder and I have wept with them — as
anyone would and everyone does, looking at the devas-
tated beauty of this glorious city. Since the AUuvione
I've been impressed and humbled by the magnificent
spirit of the Florentines, proud of their energy and en-
thusiasm, the courage with which they confronted their
catastrophe, and their readiness to rebuild, recreate and
re-establish.

But today, somehow, things are different. The initial
effort has given way to exhaustion and depression. -Sud-
denly, everyone seems to be coming out of shock. Now
that the sweeping and the pumping and the carting-away
are over, the people of Florence are looking around and

what's left? Dirty, bare walls, empty stores, vacant
rooms, nothingness. A life time's work has disappeared.
A business, a shop, an ambition carried on from gen-
eration to generation — gone. The struggle, the success,
tlie post-war drive, the savings —
And it is still raining. And cold.

Cold and damp and muddy.

* -» * * *

I yl R. C. is a photographer. He has a tiny shop on
the via Maggio, a sweet wife and a beautiful, 22-year old
daughter, named Fiorella. For five years he developed
pictures for us, enlarged pictures, counselled us on light
exposures and camera equipment and the speed and
variety of films. This morning his store was empty —
not only of people, but of supplies. Gone were the cam-
eras, the home-movie equipment, the gay blown-up
Ferrania posters, the stacks of orders. Gone were the
bright lights, the shiny display cases, the busy counter,
the lenses and the tripods. A few rolls of film lay
pathetically forlorn on a temporary shelf and anachron-
istically four shiny new barometers were hanging on tlie
slill-damp wall. "Yes, we're starting again," Mr. C.
said, as I looked at them. "Everything was lost, the

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plate-glass window smashed, the entire shop washed out.
These barometers are the first shipment of an order from
Milano so that business can begin again." His eyes
filled with tears. "We lost our life's work. Everything.
Maybe I'm crazy to start again but this is the only work
I know. Cosa vuole? We're not that old . . . but still
it will take time. We had twenty years wrapped up in
this shop — all gone in two hours." In tlie dark room
in back the naphtha and water stains were high and
greasy on the walls and the one iron table that had
survived the flood was ruined and rusting.

"And Fiorella?" I asked.

"The strain was too much for her. She was expect-
ing a baby in February. She lost it two days after the
flood . . .''

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J UST one block from the Ponte Vecchio on the via
Guicciardini is the ceramics store of the M. family.
Always displayed was the finest of Italian pottery, and
inside the store a warm welcome was always extended
by all the members of tlie family. The store had been
theirs for years and they were justifiably proud of it.
Everything was available from dinner services to ash-
trays, from flower vases and small statues to coffee cups.
The little store was impressive in the variety of its dis-
plays, but the true treasure chest was downstairs in the
cantina — there, in room after room was one of the
biggest ceramic collections of Florence. It was almost
a museum.

Mrs. M. wasn't there this morning. Her niece told
me she hadn't come back to the store she loved since the
flood; she could not bear to return. The daughter was
washing plates in an improvised bucket-sink, carefully,
one at a time, removing the caked mud, and then putting
each object lovingly on the shelves. "Would you like to
go downstairs?" she asked me. "Do you mind walking in
mud?" I could only stand numb when I reached the
cantina — there wasn't much to say. "We put all the
broken pieces over there," the uncle said, pointino; to
one of the rooms which was high in rubble. "We haven't
even been able to cart it away yet." The water had come
in. swirled over the shelves and receded, leaving a tangled
mass of broken, unrecognizable tea pots, plates, fruit
bowls. There was mud thick over everything and every
bit of bowl and cup and jar was filled with it. The
brother came downstairs. "Everything will be all right,"
he said. "It will just take time and perhaps by the time
it's finished I'll be too old to see it." His niece smiled.
"Yes, we're coming along," she said bravely. "And what
a break for me! I've been excused from washing dishes
at home!" And then she burst into tears.

I HE morning of the flood, Mr. 1 . who owns a leather
store, was on the Ponte Vecchio helping a relative re-
arrange some of his stock of gold bracelets. "The Arno
had often risen high before," said Mr. T., "and I didn't
pay much attention to it, except that mv cousin was
worried about his new stock of Christmas jewelry. I
worked there with him for two hours, putting everything
on the top shelves of his shop. Then I came back to my
own store, went down into my cellar where all mv sup-
plies and machines were, and suddenly realized that my
feet were very wet. Water was seeping in from every-
where. Well, there'd been dampness down there before
so I didn't do anything about it — when — whoosh!
without any warning the water was over my knees. From
the work table where I was until I reached the stairs to
get out the water rose to my waist. Another ten min-
utes I would have drowned. I never even had time to
take any leather up with me . . . everything was down
there, too, except for the few things on display in the
show room. And the water rose all the way to the ceil-
ing and met the other water coming in from the street.
And then the work began — trying to rescue and dry
out, if possible, the soggy leathers. We had no light,
no heat, and no running water. Yet for three weeks I felt
as though I were a boy of twenty again — nothing tired
me. My helpers and I worked 16-17 hours a day. I've
never had so much energy and strength. But now —
who knows? There's so little that could be salvaged,
there's no money, no one comes to buy. Sure, I'm start-
ing again, but I'm discouraged. Twenty million lire is
a big loss, and we've all worked so hard and so long. I
hope we'll have the courage to go on. And imagine my
cousin — putting the gold on the top shelf, when later,
his whole store was washed out . . ."

A young man interrupted us. He had just come into
Mr. T.'s store, out of the rain. His shoes were muddy
and his coat was wet. I learned from the introductions
that he was the son of one of the best-known book-
binders of Florence, and that his father had had a heart
attack a month ago when the flood waters had broken
down the door of his tiny shop and carried away all his
tools, his leathers, and a number of priceless volumes.
The son was out now looking for work — any work —
anything at all that he might find to do. He was a leather
engraver by profession, and his father's assistant.

"When are you getting married?" Mr. T. asked
him. Tears came to the young man's eyes. "My fidan-
zata's father died, you've probably heard — they lived
in Gavignano, you know. Lost everything. The old
man had a stroke. The shock was too much for him.
Furniture, money, clothes, all that they owned. No time

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to save anything. And all the trousseau and the wedding
presents and what we had bought to set up housekeep-
ing — gone. Well, corraggio. We're young. We can
work. But we won't start life as we'd planned."

I HERE'S a little narrow street o(T the Piazza Santo
Spirito and there, for years, has worked A., master-crafts-
man at repairing, restoring and polishing antique furni-
ture. This morning his workshop was a shambles, still,
of ruined chairs, mud-encrusted tables and broken chests.
When I arrived A. was working hard — and there was
the lovely odor of alcohol and lacquer and wood, mixed
with the dreadful smell of the oily mud that had per-
meated everywhere all over the city. A. told me he had
been asleep the dawn of the flood, had awakened with a
jolt and had looked from his third-floor window down
at his workshop door being battered in, and a mass of
bureaus and desks and mirrors suddenly roaring down
the street. There was nothing to do, he said, but clench
his teeth in anger at the loss, the destruction and the
cherished "mobili" spinning around on the water like
corks. "I'm better off than most," he added, "my most
important tool is elbow-grease. But I need business. I
want to get back to work. Old G., the upholsterer down
the street, has closed his shop. No point in coming in to
work. He's an old man, and all he had was right there in
that shop — now the place is empty and he stays home.
Funny thing — he was working on a green velvet sofa
with matching chairs the day before the flood, and when
I saw him he said, "You know, I have a feeling I'll
never finish these." He certainly was right. The sofa
and the chairs floated by under my window the very

next day."

*****

I HE man who had for years made shoes for everyone
in our family was pathetically trying to pull his little
business back to shape. It wasn't the shoes that he'd
lost, it wasn't the equipment — but it was the records
and the names and the sizes and the orders of all the
tourists and foreigners who had ordered shoes from him
and had paid in advance, and who were who knows
where, now? How could he get in touch with them?
All his fall and winter work, and nothing to start with
now, "What to do?" lie kept repeating. "What to do . , ,?"'

I HE beautiful Lungamo Acciaouli is crumbling into
the Arno and is closed to traffic. Part of it, today, be-

cause of the rain and the rising river, was closed even to
pedestrians, I stepped cautiously along the narrow side-
walk, hating the rain, hating the mud, hating the devas-
tation and the desolation. I wanted to go and see my
friend Mr, L., who owned an art store, but when I got
there I wished I hadn't gone.

There were boards substituting for the entrance
and it didn't matter if the boards were weak: there was
nothing inside. Even the tile floor had been washed away.
There were only damp and grimy walls where once had
been paintings and parchment lamps and the gay and
lovely Florentine gilded wood objects.

In the middle of this dreary emptiness stood Mr. L.,
while two workmen took measurements and surveyed the
walls. Mr. L. and his brother and father had not been
able to get to the shop in time to save even one small
carved box, and here, too, everything that the family had
saved and worked for had been washed away, "It's almost
Christmas," he said, "and how can I make the children
understand? We can't open here again until April-May,
probably. All my father's lifetime, and now mine. I'm
just too discouraged to have any strength left. . ."

It was my turn to have tears in my eyes as I said

goodbye to him.

* * * * *

I ^U EAR the Santa Maria Novella Church is a sports-
man's delight — a sports store with a very sporting owner.
P. not only knows all about sports but he participates
and wins medals in all of them. Skiing is his favorite,
and 15 years ago he started a small ski shop in answer
to many requests. A few years later, having made instant
success, he moved into larger quarters, and then took
over the premises next door. He had an enormous well-
stocked basement and then added another one. It was
a joy to see him in the fall when the winter shipments
arrived, and this past October he had made a stunning
display in his underground showrooms. When the roar-
ing waters lashed into his store, not a ski was left, the
bobsleds, the parkas, the poles, all were swept away.
This morning a few pairs of wooly gloves were upstairs,
and one photograph of P. at the end of a winning race
was still tacked on the wall. "Well," he said, "here we
are. Wiped out. Store, basement, stock, I guess I won't
do any skiing this year but maybe I can get ready for
next summer's camping season!" Thirty million lire
loss is a small estimate. "We lost our car, too," said his
wife. "Never mind. We're still alive and thanks for
coming by. We only need a little encouragement to get
started!"

It's still raining.

It's still cold. Cold and damp and muddy.

March 1967

class notes

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Eitinrtitm

Mrs. A. E. f'unke (Juliana White-
hill, Sp.), Oct. 2, 1966

Mrs. Arthur C. Ambler (Mary Barb-
er, Acad.), Nov. 6, 1965

Mrs. North P. Davis (Lata Camp.
Acad.), July 10, 1964

Mrs. Theodore S. Meade (Cynthia
Magee, Acad. ) , May 30, 1966

Mrs. Blakeley Winston (Cornelia
Mayfield, Acad.)

Mrs. Clarence B. Rogers (Mary
Clark '13), June 30, 1966

Mrs. Frank Groves (Vivian Moss-
man '13), Sept. 17, 1966

Mrs. Joseph S. Farmer (Cornelia
Horner '16), Nov. 18, 1966

Mrs. K. D. Graves (Margaret Bur-
well '23), November 1966

Mrs. Julian Baum ( Thelma Jones '24)

Mrs. Russell H. Allan (Elizabeth
Miller '27), July 1966

Miss Dorothy Wrightnour '29, Dec.
11, 1966

Mrs. Curtis Loving (Merry Curtis
'30) , July 29, 1966

Mrs. Lunsford L. Loving (Rosalie

Faulkner '30), Sept. 12, 1966
Mrs. John B. Orgain (Norvell Royer

'30), Jan. 26, 1967
Mrs. Jack C. Northam (Mary Walker

'30), Sept. 9, 1966
Mrs. Donald Newhall (Betty Goff

'31), Feb. 7, 1967
Mrs. Lennart Nylander (Inga-Maja

Olsson '33), Feb. 11, 1967
Mrs. Powell Doty (Marquart Powell

'36), Jan. 5, 1967
Mrs. Newton H. Hanes (Mary Smith

'39)
Mrs. Roderick S. Rooney ( Mary

Spear '39), Nov. 13, 1966
Mrs. George 0. Compton ( Kaye Ellen

Creekmore '56), Dec. 7, 1965

Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck

A friend of Sweet Briar w)io look an
active interest in many aspects of tlie
College and its development. Dr. Stanley
K. Hornbeck, died in Washington on
December 10, 1966. He was the husband
of Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck '18, Execu-
tive Secretary of the Alumnae Associa-
tion from 1929 to 1938 and founder of
Sweet Briar's successful Bulb Project. To

her Sweet Briar College extends its deepest
sympathy. ^

Dr. Hornbeck had a long and distin-
guished career in public service. He was
the first Rhodes scholar from Colorado,
and he attended Oxford University from
1904-1907, after receiving his bachelor's
degree from the University of Colorado.
Later he received the Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin.

For seven years he taught at several
Chinese colleges and travelled extensively
in the Far East. In World War 1 he was a
captain in the Army Ordnance Department
and military intelligence. After the war
he served in Paris with the American Com-
mission to Negotiate Peace. Later he
taught at Harvard University and was
active in the Institute of Politics at Wil-
liams College.

Dr. Hornbeck's government service span-
ned three decades. From 1928 to 1937 he
was chief of the Division of Far Eastern
Affairs in the State Department and from
1937 to 1944 he was a special adviser to
Secretary of State Cordell Hull on political
relations. In 1944 he became director of
the new Office of Far Eastern Affairs.
Later that year be became Ambassador to
the Netherlands and was instrumental in
re-establishing diplomatic and consular
relations in that country at the close of
World War II. He retired in 1947 and
returned to Washington.

Dr. Hornbeck was the author of eight
books and many magazine articles and
received honorary degrees from the univer-
sities of Utrecht, Colorado, Wisconsin,
and Beloit College.

1913

Class Secretary: Sue Hardie Bell (Mrs.
William T.), 57 Union St. Montclair, N.J.
07042

How grieved we all are over the passing
of our class fund agent, dear Mary Clark
Rogers. Don't let her down. Continue
to contribute to the Alumnae Fund. A
letter from Sarah Cooper from Hopkins-
ville, Ky. says. "Mary's death is a great
loss to all the family as well as her school-
mates and friends. Clarence and a couple
of friends came to Hopkinsville for the
funeral service." Frances Summers Bard-
well also wrote that she attended the serv-
ices.

A letter from Elizabeth Franke Balls
tells of the loss of her husband. Their son,
Kent, Jr., is director of the Diagnostic
Clinic at the Bryn Mawr Hospital. It was
there that he died. She writes, "I must
not let myself grieve since his eyes were
failing and he knew he soon would have

to give up his laboratory work. He was
still on the National Institute of Health
grant the week before he died. I plan
to stay on here in my big house and will
welcome all old SBC gals, so let me know
if you come West again."

A Christmas letter from Ruth Howland
(our Biology teacher) told her plans to
join three friends from near Buffalo in
Orlando, Florida. She has been in the
hospital twice this year but is feeling fine
now.

I hope soon to see our Connie Guion.
She wrote, "I have office hours always over
the lunch hour as patients want to come
at that time, but if you are in the city,
give me a ring and come to see me."

My daughter. Hardie Davies, came from
.Santa Monica, Calif., and joined my son
Coleman and me in June and we had a
delightful trip to Scandinavia. If you
don't write to me your classmates don't
know wdiat you are doing, so please send
me at least a few lines.

1919

Class Secretary: Elizabeth Eccleston,
Green Level, Hampden-Sydney, Va.
Fund Agent: Cakoline Sharpe Sanders
(Mrs. Marion S.), 585 Withers Rd., Wythe-
ville, Va. 24382.

Do you recall a sunshiny day exactly
half a century ago. when our sophomore
class, divided into sh'fts, guarded Sweet
Briar's total assortment of ladders? You
will remember it was during banner rush-
ing and in the night several intrepids of
1919 had nailed our lavender and green
banner to the ceiling of the refectory. This
masterful coup enraged freshmen and jun-
iors and filled us and our sister class w th
a sense of mastery and jubilation. Since
the freshmen greatly outnumbered us, it
seemed the part of wisdom to chain every
available ladder to the fire escape behind
Grammer. This we did, but we were pre-
pared to do battle in their defense.

During the morning, as we sat out our

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guard duty, there was a great shout in mid-
campus. A spy was sent to investigate.
She came back breathless. "They haven't
got our banner! It's just that Woodrow
Wilson is re-elected." We relaxed and
went on with our watch.

It was just such a season when our
Alumnae Council met in early October.
The meetings are always well-planned. But
our stay this time was most enjoyable be-
cause there was a less-pressured pace, and
there was time to poke around on our own
and see the College at its workaday tasks.
I listened in on tliree classes and a paint-
ing seminar, leaving with reluctance and
wistful envy.

It is an eye-opener when class fund
agents, bulb chairmen and all the hard
working anonymous crew of money-raisers
make their reports. It is startling to realize
what a vital and necessary part they are of
the College, whether they are members of
earlier classes or cjuite recent graduates.
Without the stream of dollars that their
diligence and toil pour into the College,
Sweet Briar would suffer pernic'ous ane-
mia. Working alumnae are almost as nec-
essary a part of the whole as are faculty,
student body and administration.

Without private gifts, as well as dona-
tions from foundations, no independent
college can live. It is increasingly a gr'm
business competing with tax-fat behomeths.
The fine, hand-tooled education offered by
first-rate private colleges must not only
continue, but continue to grow.

The class will he grieved to learn that
Skeet Wilde's husband died just before
Thanksgiving. If her plans materialized,
she spent Christmas with a daughter.
Dorothy Neal writes happily of the full and
rewarding life that she and her husband
find in retirement. Her Hugh. Jr.. lives
in Portland, anrl they planned to be a
family group for the holidays. She writes
of a trip to California last June, which
makes one wish they would head East with
Sweet Briar as the goal.

Flo writes gratefully of Gerard's recovery
from his last desperate bout of surgery.
.She plans to be on hand for the dedication
of the Chapel .April 22-23.

Carrie Sharpe Sanders has just com-
pleted her stint as a member of the Execu-
tive Board of the Alumnae .Association.
She and her husband spent Christmas in
Williamsburg.

Other old-timers, more or less of our
vintage, attending the Council in October
were Elmira Pennyparker Yerkes, her sis-
ter Frances Pennypacker, and Anne
Schutle Nolt. Bertha Wailes always shep-
herds revenants in most comfortable fash-
ion. Bertha has been pressed back into
service at .Sweet Briar for each of the
years succeeding her retirement. This year
she is teaching at Randolph-Macon and
is finding it an interesting and rewarding
experience.

Did you know that Margaret Banister
has written another book?

1923

Class Secretary: LaVern McGee Olnicy
(Mrs. Alfred C. Jr.). 6.314 Azalea Dr.,
Dallas, Tex. 7.S230.

Fund Agent: Frances Laitkrbach. .\pt. C.
6224 Yucca St.. Hollywood, Calif. 90028.

1 know all of you are sorry to hear of
tile death of Margaret Burnelt Graves on
November lyih after a short stay in the
hospital. Her daughter. Margaret Graves
McClung 'Si ( Mrs. David ) sent me this
sad news.

Matiltia Bryant George says their winter
and summer vacations are divided between
their two daughters in Mass. and Florida
but they were in Durham for Christmas.
Virginia Stanberry Schneider wrote that
she has four grandchildren — two girls
and two boys.

Mildred Bniril White's oldest step-daugh-
ter and Doctor husband left Woolen, Ohio
on Jan. 1.5 for two years in Tunis, Africa.
He is attached to the State Department
medical department. She plays bridge with
some bridge addicts twice a week.

Phyllis Payne Gathright spent Thanks-
giving in Virginia Beach with son Norvell
and family on their farm. He is a com-
mander in the Navy and is teaching at the
staff college in Norfolk.

Gertrude Geer Bassett and husband.
Clark, visited Sweet Briar. Helen MrMahon
took them on a tour of the campus las
she did for A\ and me last year. I

Lorna Weber Dowling and husband
planned a visit to Ft. Worth, Texas in Jan-
uary to see their doctor son.

We have been travelling since June when
we came out to Phoenix to see our fourth
grandson ( Bobbie's second son) . After a
few weeks at home we went to South Caro-
lina in August and then to Florida and
New Orleans.

We went to Phoenix on December 1.5th
for Christmas with the daughter who lives
there. The Dallas daughter flew out on
the 24th with her family.

Dorothy Job Robinson wrote from Eng-
land that she is planning a world tour
by boat.

1925

Class Secretary: Cordelia Kirkendall Bar-

uiCKs I Mrs. Arthur A.), 1057 Walker Ave.,

Oakland, Calif. 94610.

Fund Agent: Mary Dowds Hodck (Mrs.

Lewis D.I. 23 Hodge Rd., Princeton. N.J.

08540.

No news is good news so "you all "
must be "in the pink." I'll have difficulty
writing a column this time especially
about our class. Please turn over a new-
leaf and let me hear from vou.

Elizabeth Franke Balls, class of 1913,
lost her wonderful husband. Kent, a scien-
tist in May of this year.

Ruth McElrai'y Logan, class of 1917, is
now in Reno with her mother who is very
ill. Ruth has her lovely home in Piedmont
up for sale, but now hopes it won't sell
in the three months the realtor has it on
ihe market.

Ellen Netiell Br>'an. class of 1926, wrote
me a card. Now doesn't that put vow to
shame. They moved to Clemson. So. Caro-
lina after having lived in Cleveland for
ten years. Her husband. Wright, is Vice
President of Clemson. Ellen had attended
her 40th reunion at Sweet Briar last June
and had a marvelous time. Their family
is madi' up of two daughters and a son.
One daughter lives in .Atlanta and the
other in (!leveland. They each have two
children. Their son is a bachelor and

works for the Times Picayune in New
Orleans. The daughters both graduated
from .Sweet Briar and the son from Van-
derbilt. Ellen was going to Cleveland in
August and besides her family would see
Kay Klumph McGuire. Thank you Ellen
for helping me out.

Dorothy Herbison Hawkins phoned me
from San Francisco in August. She and
her husband had planned to go to Europe,
but changed their trip to the West Coast
and felt very rewarded. They didn't want
to be too inaccessible considering one of
their sons-in-law was in Vietnam. It was
wonderful hearing from Dorothy, but I
wish we could have seen each other. She
was leaving the next morning and, too,
I'm not so free now because of my hus-
band's illness.

While on our Mexican cruise in Feb-
ruary 1 won a prize for my costume which
was the dress 1 wore in Sue Hager Rohrer's
wedding in 1927. It had no sleeves, was
very low waisted and short. I carried an
ostrich feather fan with it, also from the
Roarin' Twenties and then did the Charles-
ton. I sent the photo on to Sue. By now
she has two more grandchildren. I think
that makes about nine or ten. Congratula-
tions. Sue. and I'm envious, too. I have
but two. but alas! two of my sons are bach-
elors.

.Arthur and I went to Alaska this sum-
mer. Flew to Vancouver, B.C. There we
rented a car. We took two different boat
trips through the Inland Passage, one
through British Columbia waters and the
other in .Alaskan. Never have we seen so
much scenery of grandeur and would rec-
ommend the trip to all.

While on this trip Arthur first felt
twinges of arthritis, but he said little. We
were home only a few weeks when we
drove to Kennewick. Washington to see my
oldest son and family. They had recently
moved there from Yakima and are happy
in their new locale. Their home is darling,
overlooking the Columbia River. We took
our daughter-in-law and two granddaugh-
ters to our favorite simple resort in the
Feather River Country. Our son had used
his vacation in which to move and both
he and his wife had painted both the inter-
ior and exterior of their home. We're
proud of them. I have yet to paint a
house.

Evidently this trip proved too much for
husband. Arthur. He became worse and
worse. His twinges of discomfort turned
into acute arthritis which put him in the
hospital for ten days. He is some better,
but still pretty helpless, and the worst of it
is he faces surgery when stronger. I had a
complete physical in .August and seem to
be healthy, certainly can't use the word
"young" in that last sentence.

Please remember I send no cards and
please so many don't remain my silent
partners.

1929

Acting Class Secretary: Sara Callison
Jamison (Mrs. John R.), 616 Ridgewood
Dr.. West Lafayette. Ind.
Fund Agent: Mary .Archer Bean Eppes
I Mrs. James V.I. 447 Heckwelder PL,
Bethlehem, Pa. 18018.

It has been said that one should never

March 1967

begin a letter with an apology, but I am
going to pretend that 1 haven't heard about
that rule. About two iveeks ago I decided
that the class of "29 should break into print
again and so I wrote to the Alumnae Office
and asked for the deadline for the next
issue of the Alumnae Magazine. 1 learned
that the deadline was only several weeks off
with almost no time for sending you all
an S.O.S. for news. So here goes with
what news I have on hand. June McKenzie
said that I could get someone to write the
letter but she didn't give me any news
of herself.

The most dramatic and exciting piece
of news concerns the daring deeds of the
son of our glamorous classmate, Virginia
Lee Campbell Clinch. Virginia's son, N.ch-
olas Llinch. has just led a U. S. mountain
climbing expedition to the peak of Anarc-
tica's Vinson Mass.f and planted the flags
of twelve nations there on December 21st,
1966. I am going to quote a paragraph
from an article in Time Magazine, Jan. 6,
1967 concerning this feat. "The logistics
alone made it an impressive feat. Com-
manded by Los Angeles lawyer Nicholas
Clinch, 36, the veteran of two Himalayan
ascents, the ten members of the U. S. expe-
dition had nothing to go on except aerial
photographs in planning their assault, had
to do without fancy climbing rigs. And
they had to prepare themselves mentally
for one of the loneliest undertakings man
has ever attempted." Explained Clinch be-
fore the climb: 'Antarctica is not like
the Himalayas, where you can always
retreat to a native village if something
goes wrong.' From the moment that a
Navy plane deposited them on a lifeless
plateau 20 miles from the base of the Vin-
son Massif, the climbers only lifeline to
the outside world was an emergency radio
hookup with McMurdo .Sound, 1300 miles
away."

Virginia Lee, her husband and her
mother were visiting the Clinch's daughter
in Denver, Colorado when they received
the thrilling news of the successful climb
on Christmas Eve. Our congratulations to
all of the Clinches.

A Christmas letter from Libber Lank-
ford Miles and husband John contained
a picture of "Litlle Paradise," their rather
new home located on an inlet somewhere
between Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
When they want crabs for dinner, they
have only to throw a line off the pier in
the front yard. Doesn't it sound enticing?
Esther Campbell, who has visited them,
says it is the most adorable place she
can imagine. Libber and Johnny's chil-
dren are located fairly near them; John,
Jr. at "Swannanoa" in Virginia; Burnley,
his wife, Kim, and three boys in Washing-
ton, D. C; and Betsy and her husband
with their daughter Bess are in South
Carolina. The Miles' children and grand-
children are fortunate to have a built-in
resort to visit when they go to "Little Para-
dise."

Jamie and 1 were in Charleston, W. Va.
over New Year's weekend visiting sister
Jane Smith and family. While there we
saw Esther Campbell, who looked simply
great, despite a husband in bed with the
flu and visiting grandchildren for the holi-
days. We chatted prodigiously for an hour
or so without covering all the topics we
wished to discuss, so I asked Essie to write
to me before I prepared this newsletter.

I quote from her welcome letter, "As you
can see, 1 have survived the Christmas
visit of my grandchildren, and Harry and
I have settled into our placid routine once
more. Did 1 tell you that son Hugh and
his family are living in Norfolk V He
called last week to say that the bank is
transferring him to Alexandria, Va. It
is a nice promotion for him, and that, of
course, pleases us. But it will also mean
that I wont be seeing Libber Miles so
often, and being with her added so much
fun to the Norfolk visits. However, 1 will
be returning to Norfolk for a while longer
at least, for Tia (Esther's daughter, SBC
"66 » and Bob will be there for the dura-
tion of Bob's stay in the Navy. Right
now he is in the Mediterranean and Tia
is over there too, following the ship from
port to port and having a wonderful time.
When Bob is at sea, Tia joins other Navy
wives and the girls go off on trips of their
own.

"Every now and then I drive over to
Huntington to have a few hours with Mary
Eunice Armstrong Allen '29. For so many
years Mark and "Pinkie" lived .n Vene-
zuela, but Mark has retired now and they
have moved back to Huntington. They
also have bought a lovely home which
ihey leave periodically when the itch to
travel becomes too strong. They enjoyed
a long European trip last year, and dur-
ing the summer their daughter, Ann, a stu-
dent at St. Catherine's, joined them."
Esther ended her letter with the following
question, "Have you recovered from Pur-
due's victory at the Rose Bowl?" I swear
that I didn't make up that last question
that Essie asked me and I'm so glad she
did ask it because I wondered how 1 was
going to work in a few words in praise
of the Jamison's favorite team!

We have visited Ruth Ferguson Smythe
and Fred several times this past year both
in Louisville and at their cottage at Torch
Lake. They are thorouglily enjoying
Fred's retirement and are spending much
time travelling and staying up north at
Torch. Their son John is located in San
Francisco; son Stuart, his wife. Sue, and
their three children live in Louisville, as
does daughter Meredith (SBC "551, her
husband. Dr. Paul Grider, and their three
darling little girls, the last little girl be-
ing only five months old and named Mere-
dith.

Ruth and Fred see quite a lot of Polly
McDuirmid Serodino, who has become
quite a success in the field of real estate.
We all take off our hats to one of us for
having launched a new and diffieult-to-
learn career. And speaking of Polly's.
Jamie and I saw Polly Roberts Bennett in
Frankfort, Ky. almost two years ago.
Since then her husband. Arch, has passed
away. We all send our sympathy to Polly.
Both of their children, a boy and a girl, are
married and have been quite successful in
their professions. Polly has just recently
moved to a new apartment in Frankfort.

Last weekend we visited Queen Belle and
husband John Hutchins in Winnetka. John
was retired from business this year, but
has taken on an important new civic job as
Chairman of the Board of Passavant Hos-
pital in Chicago. They will probably spend
more time in Virginia in the future and
they are planning to be in Florida for
a while this winter. Their eldest son, John,
his wife and two children, are moving

back to Chicago soon, which is wonder-
ful news for the Hutchins. Son Cole is
hnishing law school at THE UNIVERSITY
()ou know where I in June and will then
be assoc.ated with a Chicago law firm.
Harley has distinguished himself as a top-
ranking young naval officer in the nuclear
suhmarine service, and Brockie, the young-
est son, is a freshman at the Colorado
School of Mines.

While in Winnetka we had luncheon
with my old roomie, Jo Tatman Mason and
husband Mace. These two met at our
wedding and we must say that it turned
out pretty well. Jo still takes the prize
as the youngest looking gal in the class of
'29. (Of course, I haven't seen all of
you recently, so some of you can claim the
prize if you feel so inclined ) . The Masons
have built a lovely home in Connecticut
near Rockville where they spend some
weekends and to which they will retire
some day. In the meantime, they have
lots to keep them in Winnetka other than
their enthusiasm for curling. Their daugh-
ter, Joan and husband, Quigg Porter (son
of Lib Joy Porter '28) and their two daugh-
ters; son Mark, his wife and their two
children, and son Ned. his wife and two
sons all live in the Chicago area, so that
the Masons have plenty of opportunity to
play grandparents.

We had a delightful letter from Gert
Prior shortly after Christmas. She told
us about some of the changes in the SBC
landscape, something of how terribly busy
the present student body is kept, what
with more outside activities than we ever
dreamed of when we were in school, the
fact that she is as busy as can be in the
Book Shop, and that bird-watching is still
the great interest and hobby of her life.
1 have mislaid her letter or 1 would quote
from it some of the cute th'ngs she said
about her dogs and roosters and her moun-
tain-bird-watching hikes. Gert, take good
care of yourself as we always want you
"to come home to" when we return to
Sweet Briar.

Jamie and 1 had our first trip abroad
together last spring. We spent almost all
of our time in the cities of Paris and Lon-
don where we soaked up all of the his-
tory, scenery ard atmosphere that we could
absorb in the time we had to spenJ. It
was a must successful tirp in every respect.
Be sure to ask us about it som? time!

Our Jamie works in New York City and
he and his wife Judy and four children
live in Summit. N. J. We don't get to see
them as often as we would like, but we do
keep the telephone lines busy. Daughter
Jane (SBC '591 and her husband, George
Tatman, (Jo Tatman's nephew), little Jam-
ison and Sarah, live in Richmond, Ind., so
we enjoy going back and forth to visit
often.

Jane and I sometimes meet in Indianapo-
lis at a .Sweet Briar alumnae meeting there.
The Indianapolis Club was organized only
about ten or so years ago, but it has grown
steadily and has become a strong organi-
zat'on in those years.

Class notes for odd-numbered classes
will be carried in the winter issue of the
Alumnae Magazine and even numbered
classes will be carried in the spring issue.
.So — you see it will be some time before
we will again appear in print, but please
do write to me and I will keep your letters
for the next issue.

Alumnae Magazine

1931

Class Secretary: J KAN Cole Anukhson
(Mrs. George D., Jr.), 2d8 Wasliington
Ave., N.E., Marietta, Ga. 30060.
Fund Agent: Polly Suiift Calhoun (Mrs.
Frank E. ), Coltsfoot Farm, Cornwall,
Conn. OblS'i.

At our S.'itli reunion last .lurie we decid-
ed to make a .special conlribulion to Sweet
liriar in the form of books for the Mary
Helen Cochran Library in memory of
twelve deceased classmates. The money
was turned over to Martha Von Briesen
who made arrangements with Miss Lydia
M. Newland, Assistant Librarian, for the
selection and purchase of the books. Each
is to be in the field of interest, or major,
of the classmate so remembered and her
name will be placed on the bookplate in
the volume. It is hoped that other mem-
bers of the class will wish to add to this
memorial fund. As the nineteen reunion-
ers went the> various ways, three were
heading west for summer tours, (Juinny
(Juintard Bond joining her husband for a
flight to Denver where they were to pick
up a car to drive through the West. Natalie
Roberts Foster and Walter drove out to
Colorado. And Polly Swijt Calhoun had
come to .'^weet Briar in her completely
equipped camper so we could picture the
fun she and her family would have on
their tour. A card from Polly in Septem-
ber said they even reached Alaska.

My own 1966 trip was that of driving to
Lynchburg before reunion time for a
"merrie month of May" with Elizabeth
Clark, my first visit in fifteen years. It was
like a homecoming to be with her and so
many old friends, Nancy Worthington, Ella
Williams Fauber, Lucy Harrison Miller
Baber "30. Fanny Penn Ford Libby "30 an<l
Amelia Mollis Scott '29. After two min-
utes nobody had changed a bit.

Split and 1 visited Natalie and Walter
in Roanoke. They gave us a beautiful
drive along the Blue Kidge Parkway to see
the flame azalea in full glory. Another
day Split and I went up to Charlottesville
to have lunch with Elizabeth Copeland Nor-
fleet, '30. She was looking forward to a
summer of teaching in England.

Ginny Cooke Rea and Jean Countryman
Presba had a visit with Ella in Lynchburg
before departing for home. The evening
of June 7th was really gay as we looked
through Ella's photo albums of S.B. scenes.
Ginny wrote at Christmas that she and
Country had had another reunion in Octob-
er, inclutling husbands, at a convention.

While in Athens, Ga., last fall, where my
daughter lives, I spent a morning with
Nan Torian Owens '29 looking at, and
through, some fine old houses. From her
1 learned that Ella and her husband had
stopped by shortly before on a trip to
Jekyll Island where Everette is the archi-
tect for the restoration of '"Millionaire's
Village."

Other news gleaned from Christmas
cards: Helen Sim Mellen said that her son,
John, was still in Germany with the Air
Force enjoying what trips he can get
in between duties.

Natalie wrote that she and \\ alter were
in Florida in the fall and as they went
through Ft. Pierce she got in touch with
Mary Frances Riheldaffer Kuhn who
"looked fine and is all set to have fun.

her children being off on their own." Oil-
painting is one adventure mentioned.

Natalie enclosed a clipping from the
Richmond paper, a fine article complete
with attractive photo, about Charlotte Kent
Pinckney's having been named Christmas
Mother for Richmond, a fund-raising proj-
ect sponsored each year by the Richmond
Newspajiers, Inc. to provide for needy fam-
ilies at (.hrislmas. I'm filing the clip in
C^harlotte"s section of the marvelous scrap-
book she made for the class reunion. It
will go back to the Alumnae House as
soon as I get more notations from it for
the files that Jean Floehn Wernenlin sent
on to me.

Addenda by Martha Von Briesen:

Jean's post-Christmas letter brought me
up to date on her family. Her oldest, Ed,
is a lawyer in the Wall Street firm of
Hughes, Hubbard, Blair and Reed. He was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell, spent
several years in the Navy, and was grad-
uated cum laude from Harvard Law
School. Grace, a Smith graduate, is in
Chicago as an assistant supervisor in Occu-
pational Therapy in the neuro-psychiatric
Institute of the University of Illinois Medi-
cal School, which means she is on the
faculty and teaches O.T. Jock is start ng
his last of three years in the Navy, since
graduating from Dartmouth, and plans to
go to graduate school, probably in busi-
ness administration.

I spent a week in Nepal right after
Cliristmas, visiting my niece Mary von
Br!esen, who has been there 15 months in
the Peace Corps. Gordon Calhoun, Polly's
son, is there also, and we had two very
pleasant visits with him. Polly and Frank
were coming to spend some time with
Gordon in January, on their round-the-
world trip which will include a visit with
the'r son Dave and his family, in Geriuany.

1939

Acting Class Secretary: Augusta Saul
Edwards (Mrs. Richard T.), 1344 Lake-
wood Dr, S.W., Roanoke, Va. 24015.
Funi Agent: Mary Mackintosh Shlrer
(Mrs. Joseph, Jr.), South Rd., Box 98
Holden, Mass. 01520.

Greetings to the '39'ers from coast to
coast! Since Mary Jeffery Welles Pearson
has taken off for the clear weather of .-Vri-
zona for a few weeks, 1 am pinch-hitting
for this issue of the Magazine. Please
write to Jeff soon so she can include you
in the July class notes.

From the West coast conies news of
Barbara Earl Reinheimer. She and Fred,
a lawyer in San Jose, celebrateil their
25th anniversary by remodelling and add-
ing to their house; their two sons are in
college. .She hopes to see Ellen McClin-
toch Tcmpleton '40, as she has moveil to
Santa Rosa. Bobby's former roomie is
on the East coast so they seldom meet.
Patricia Bah Vincent's travels usually take
her to England when she roams far from
home. Patty's husband. Dr. Pat, teaches at
Duke: .Simon is an honor student at Epis-
copal High School in Alexandra: .Sarah,
a talented teen-age dress designer, was
featured in the Durham paper: and Mary,
their youngest, keeps Patty a-chauffeuring.

.Among those who changed adilresses last
vear are two who moved to the same

town, but in different states! John and
Jane Lewis Kingsbury moved their family
trom Kalamazoo, Mich, to 65 Linden Rd.,
Barringlon, Rhode Island. Janie is a graml-
mothcr as .Susan and her husband have
two children. John is a senior in college
in Michigan, so only the two younger girls
are at home now. Charles and Margaret
Hoyt (jogsvvell moved from their lovi'ly
I'airfax (bounty home in Virginia to another
Harrington, outside of Chicago, while
Frank remained in Virginia to continue his
studies at V.P.I. The Cogswells, with
(Jiuck a high school senior and Mike,
the youngest, live at 107 Brinke Rd., Bar-
rington, 111.

Ruth Harmon Kei-ser and her daughter
had a trip to Europe this summer before
Judy entered Katherine Gibbs in Boston.
Mac is a sophomore at Middlebury and
Andy's in school in Connecticut. Ruth
plays tennis a lot and currently is taking
some courses at Rutgers. Another traveler
is Ann Espach Weckler who traveled to
India to see her daughter and son-in-law
while they lived there one year. They
are back now; Ann and Harold's son, Hal,
is a freshman at the University of Mich-
igan. Carol Carpenter Gillam and Chuck
have only Lex at home now. Greta had a
lovely wedding in Houston in June. Tom
also lives there with two children of his
own.

Our deep sympathy is extended to New-
ton Hanes, and to his son and family, over
the passing of Mary Smith Hanes. Millie
died in Winston-Salem, after a lingering
illness.

Did you know that our alumnae secre-
tary, Elizabeth Bond Wood '34 is now an
authority on Indians in Alaska? Jackie
had a quick hut fabulous trip to the ''top
of the world" recently to be with her
daughter, Katie Wood Clarke, '65, when a
new son arrived to her and her minister
husband in Grayling, Alaska. Have her tell
you about it next time around campus.

As with most of you all, we Edwards
have had another memorable year. Tliree
of tlu' highlights were Tom and Ebbie's
(Mary Evelyn Evans '64) gift of a grand-
son in May: John's graduation from
Princeton in June, and Betsy's entrance
to Sweet Briar in September. Tom will
receive his M.D. from the School of Medi-
cine at University of Virginia in June,
and John is at llnion Theological .Seminary
in New York this year. Parents" Day
at .Sweet Briar was absolutely wonderful.
Betsy Campbell Gawthrop really should
have been there to hear Beth and her
group sing. .Also saw Martha Matheus
McGiffs" daughter. Page Munroe, on a
visit to campus, and she looks just like
Martha, (^ome to see us whenever you're
around Roanoke, Virginia.

1941

Class Secretary: Decca Gilmer Fracke(.-
TON (Mrs. Robert L.I, 1714 Greenway Dr.,
Fredericksburg, Va. 22401.
Fund Agent: Elizabeth Brown-Serman
M*cR\E (Mrs. Colin), 903 Vicar Lane,
Alexandria, Va. 22302.

Bouquets to Helen Watson Hill who so
ably carried on the duties of Class Secre-
tary and special thanks to her for remem-
bering to add a note to her Christmas card.

March 1967

The Hills "had a good sailiiif: summer and
in October a nice trip to Maine." Jeff
graduated from Chinese Lanjiuage school
in Monterey (Air Force) and is now in
Texas. Leni is enjoying her senior year
in high school.

Our thanks to Helen Anne Littleton
Hauslein. Lillian Breedlove White and
Joan Myers Cole for the lovely wilt-proof
corsages we each received and the Scraji
Book to keep our memories intact.

Our gratitude to the Alumnae Office for
publishing this Scrap Book for us. May 1
take a moment here to praise the "unsung
heroines" of the Alumnae Office ^vho de-
vote their time and energies so success-
fully to making our visits a pleasure!

An unexpected bonus for me was the
October meeting at SBC. There '41 was
well-represented by Vice-President Joan
Derore Roth and Regional Chairmen Allen
Baghy Macneil ( all the way from Califor-
nia! ), Bettv Doucett Neil and Martha Jean
Brooks Mdler.

Helen Anne handed me messages from
Shirts Shnw Daniel. Wilma Cavett Alley
and Paula Robison Harrison sending
greetings and regrets. We were sorry you
all and others couldn't be with us.

Most of you must have heard from our
Fund .-\gent Betty Brown-? erman MacRae.
No better time than now to send your
check to .Sweet Briar!

Marie Gnffney Barry entertained all the
Frackeltons plus her house sruests at
Sprucewood (4th Lake) one Sunday in
AuGust and we discovered why she's such
a hichly rated hostess. Marie and Ted
headed for sunshine and the British West
Indies for the holidays.

Butch Giirney Betz and John grilled
us steaks at 7th Lake on their 21st weddin<i
anniversary. Also found in the Adiron-
dack area was Barbara Nevens Young with
her grandson. Benjamin Clayton Beers,
then eight weeks old. Barbara had seen
Edffe Cnrdnmone O'Donnell several times.

Charlie Davenport Tuttle answered my
appeal for news as a kindred spirit (Class
.Secretarv of Dobbs '37 ) . Susan 13. is at
home. Winnie at St. Margaret's (Conn.)
and Ty at Williams. Ty had been ("vears
aao") to Adirondack Woodcraft Camps
where our bovs eo in the summer. If there
are other AWC sons among you, let me
know.

Kllie Damsard Firth reports that Mollv
left for U. of S.C. in her new Skvlark and
that Weezie 's now Mrs Robert Jude
Doran, Jr. With her husband she also
will be studying at U. of S C. Fllie and
.Swede were to visit friends in Charleston.
W.Va.

Asked Marion Dailey Avery about her
naintirg — she prefers inks, casein, acrv-
lics. but uses oils occasionallv — her style
— "semi-impressionistic, semi-abstract, sel-
dom the same," does mostly landscapes.
This summer in Chattanooga she saw Mil-
dred Moon Montague ('40) who "looks
great, stavs busy."

In Michigan we find Martha Ingles
.Schrader teaching hi"b school English and
Jack having retired from the Arniv is with
the Trust Department of the Michigan
National Bank. John is a senior at the
University of Michigan, Stephen, a sopho-
more at Michigan .State and Cathy an
8th srrader.

Judy Davidson Walker is in Norfolk

where Tony is "Deputy Chief of Staff FMF
Lant." Bill whose graduation from Ver-
mont .Academy kept Judy from reunion is
now at Gettysburg College. Don is a
junior at Hotchkiss and Andy in the 8th
Grade at Norfolk Academy.

Mary Scully Olney and Jim were in
the Virgin Islands in October — a 20th
.Anniversary trip. Mary had reported earl-
ier a golf game with Betty Doucett Neil
in Conn, this summer.

Just managed a "Hello" on the phone
Avhen Lou Lemheck Reydel was down for
Chuck's graduation at Quanlico. Then the
Reydels were off to the Bahamas for
Christmas. Lou sent me a card from there
which the owners had made from a slide
she took the year before. Jimmy is at
Villanova, Joan. Steve, and Barbara in the
8th, 5th and 4th grades in that order.

I do believe Helen Gwinn Wallace has
discovered how to pack more than 24 hours
into a dav. She's back at the Loudoun
Country Day School as Assistant Head,
spends several hours daily doing office
work for Johnny who is building his first
shopping center, and has managed to re-
sume "community" life in the League of
Women Voters, Seroptomist Club, Speech
and Hearing Center, Community Action
Committee, and as program chairman of
Garden Club! Also, keeps her horses and
a pack of hounds and rides almo.st daily,
In addition she finds time to enjoy her
son's two children (ages 3 and 1.) Before
Christmas she visited Linda who is mar-
ried and working as a research chemist
with Monsanto Company in Dayton.

A friend took her daughter to the
Testing Center at RPI and there was Fran-
ces Wilson Dowdey on the job. Frances's
Patsy is planning to study with the FLL
Schools this summer as is our Carter.

Mishap Dept.: learned that Bebo Chi-
chester Hull broke a leg skiing Dec. 27 —
know it hurts more having happened so
early in the season. Speedy recovery to
Bebo.

1943

Class Secretary: Marguerite Hume. 2218
Village Dr.. Louisville, Ky. 4020.5.
Fund Agent: Betty Schmeisser Nelson
(Mrs. Karl J.), Sachem Rd., Rt. 2, Weston,
Conn. 06880.

.At the time of this writing (January)
the rosy sociability of Christmas lingers,
and out of it have come the following notes.

Our local Sweet Briar Day brought a
delightful glimpse of Mary If heeler Hill-
iard (remember the "Paducah" of our
freshman year? I and her pretty daughter
Margaret. This is the year of the debut
for Fayette McDoivell Willeft's Sweet
Briarite Louise, and a recent newspaper
picture showed her danc'ng with her still
very young looking grandfather, Mr. Robert
B. McDowell. Fayette reported by phone
that she had been in touch with Snookie
Campbell Shearer, who said that her fam-
ily is getting along fine now, including
her husband Logan, who had earlier been
prevented from coming from Lexington to
Louisville for an annual golf tournament
by a case of mumps,

Esther Jett Holland mentions having
seen Anne Mcjunkin Briber at .Mumnae
Council in October; last May she chatted

with Jody IJ illis Leaman, who is teach-
ing kindergarten now that both of her
children are in college. Lucy Kiker Jones
enclosed a clipping date-lined in Lynch-
burg last June announcing the marriage of
Elsie Jackson Kelly's lovely daughter,
Susan Hamner Kelly, to David Wayne
Clemons of Greensboro, N. C. Caroline
Miller McClintock reports her five chil-
drtn busy with school — Dave is at David-
son and loves it — and Gale's pleased with
the business year for textile machinery.
Louise I^eak Spring writes conc'sely frcmi
Cynthiana, Ky., with no word appended
about her girls, but I hear from another
source that there has been a wedding in
her family as well. .Speaking of the mar-
riages of the next generation, and we do
seem to have reached that stage, ladies,
Dotti Campbell Scribner sent along a wed-
ding picture of her Kali?, marr ed in
September to Michael Dunn, and notes
that the bride received her M.A. from
Michigan in linguistics only two weeks
beforehand. Bonilee Key Garrett and
Mary Carter Richardson have sent rather
breathless-sounding notes about trying to
keep up with the teen-agers, but both
add that it's a job they enjoy. Ann°
Mitchell .Albyn sends welcome news of
her five; her Sally is going to Indiana Uni-
versity next year. Scottie Simmons
McConnell's Davy is going to medical
school next year. Barbara Perkins Max-
well recalls with pleasure a trip she and
her doctor husband Jack made from their
home in .Alexandria, La., to New York last
year and hopes for a repeat journey.

Janice Fitzgerald Wellons tells of a
twenty-fifth reunion she and Margaret
Gold Sivindell Dickerman shared at St.
Mary's: still living in Smithfield, N. C,
Janice has 24 piano students to occupy her
as well as her busy lawyer husband and
three daughters — the oldest. Jan, will
graduate from St. Mary's High School in
May. Ouija Adams Bush is most happy
that Jeanette. who enjoyed a trip to Eur-
ope last summer will be entering Sweet
Briar next fall. Ouija hopes now to see
more of our classmates who are also .Sweet
Briar parents; she recalls a pleasant eve-
ning spent last summer with Junk and
Frank Briber.

Barbara Bolles Miller plans some trips
east (from Toledo) this summer so that her
oldest son Ken, a high school junior, can
visit some of the eastern colleges. A
friend who visited -Ann Jacobs Pakradooni's
"Joie de Vivre" boutique in Haverford,
Pa., writes enthusiastically: A good num-
ber of the dresses, shifts and evening
gowns were on her own design, and she
says she now has a partner and has formed
a company which manufactures her de-
signs under their double name, Ann-
Michel, or something close to that. And
— she's writing for McCall's magazine,
starting in January. It all sounds great."
doesn't it !

Baxter Broun Logas sends greetings
from her home in Studio City, Calif., and
adds: "I think about and enjoy memories
of SBC often. Clint and I have a tiny
house with pool in what is fondly known
as 'The Meadows' where we have horses,
dogs, geese and other bucolic accouter-
ments — twenty minutes from Los Angeles
City Hall." Harriet Fallen Phillips tells
of a flight to Luxembourg last sunmier
with luggage, tent and five sleeping bags.

ALLIMN.4E Magazine

Once there, she and her fajiiily uroceeileil
to lour Europe in a Germaiiinadt- mini-
l)us, camping out about half tiie time. Tliis
t.cliedule-free arrangement allowed them
to spend more time in the places they most
enjoyed: Salzburg, the Rhine valley, and
Lake Lucerne. She sounds most enthus-
iastic; tempted, anyone V If you go, and
wherever you go, please don't forget to
write. And may the year just started
bring you many blessings!

1945

Class Secretary: Mary Kathrvn Frye
Hemphill (Mrs. Samuel M.), 344 7th
Ave., N.E., Hickory, N.C. 2860L
Fund Agent: Martha Holton Glesser
(Mrs. Donald G.l, 5698 Raven Rd., Birm-
ingham, Mich. 48010.

The last day of September Dr. Elbyrne
G. Gill died in Roanoke. We all mourn
with the family and the community the loss
of this enthusiastic civic leader and nation-
ally-known physician. Our love goes es-
pecially to Edith Page Gill Breakell and to
her mother and sisters, Jean King and
Betty Byrne Chaney (SBC '55).

Christmas Card Gleanings:

Carol Cox MacKinnon and family vaca-
tioned in England and Scotland last sum-
mer. They are rejoicing in son Jock's
acceptance on early decision at Williams.
Congratulations to Jock! We know that
relieved feeling, for our Steve is in David-
son for next year on early decision.

A family picture of Jo Livernwre Foust
and family indicates three handsome teen-
agers, plus equally handsome ma and pa,
who have changed only a little bit. Jo has
cut her hair!

Martha Holton Glesser's boys are busy
with winter athletics — diving lessons and
ice hockey. To us Southerners that is a
peculiar combination.

Jean Ridler Fahrenbach's son Robert,
now nine months old, must have made
Christmas even merrier for his two sisters.

Ann McLean Loomis writes that her
Betsy is a happy Sophomore at Guilford
College near Greensboro. Gil, III (16)
and Lloyd (10) are both doing well in
school.

\^'hile in Greensboro for a Davidson
basketball game, I spent a lot of time in
the telephone booth. Conversations with
their mothers brought news of Nancy-Ellen
Feazell Kent and Dolores Fagg Horner.
Nancy-Ellen teaches Spanish in a junior
high school in Greensboro. Her husband
is manager of the Coliseum and all re-
ports indicate he is doing a grand job of
it. The Kents have two daughters — Dede,
a junior piano major at UNC, Chapel Hill
and Hutton, a freshman at St. Mary's,
Raleigh. Nancy and Robert were vaca-
tioiting in Jamaica when I called, so Mrs.
Feazell cantributed this news of the fam-
ily.

Mrs. Fagg in Kernersville reports that
Doe is in the usual busy mama role with
Becky (13* and Amy (9). Since their
new home is outside Morristown. Tenn.. she
has more than the usual amount of chauf-
fering.

Thru Mary Haskins King there is more
Christmas card news:

Jean Moores McCulloch in Springfield,
Ohio continues her interest in horses, at-
tending shows when she can.

Perk Traugott Brown is teaching second
grade in a public school at Virginia Beach.
She has a son in school at Severn, near
Annapolis.

Mary is going to New York on the
Theater Train from Greensboro soon and
has plans to meet Diddy Gaylord Thomp-
son for lunch at Lincoln Center. Audrey
Betts was out when I called but Mary
tells me she is fine. 1 will try again,
y\udrey.

And now this fascinating report: Mary
said that Jodie said that Lovah said that
Ellen Gilliam Perry's husband Marvin is
to be the new president of Goucher Col-
lege! Harriet Wilcox Gearhart confirmed
this good news so congratulations go to
Marvin, and our best wishes. Lovah is
eager to be among those to welcome the
Perrys to Baltimore next June. Jodie Mor-
gan Hartraan and her family spent one
night with the Gearharts last fall. Since
1 needed news desperately, Lovah said I
could report that she entertained the area
Sweet Briar Day group at the rectory in
December. The covered-dish luncheon
affair was attended by about 12 in sp.te
of the snow storm that day.

1947

Class Secretary: Mary Stuart McGiiire
Gilliam (Mrs. B. McCluer), 8 Providence
Hill Circle, Lexington, Va. 244.50.
Fund Agent: Elizabeth Ripley Davey
(Mrs. Paul H., Jr.), 7535 Sylvan Dr., Twin
Lakes, Kent. Ohio 44240.

Our sympathy goes to:

Pat Hassler Schuber and Jack, on

the death of their son;
Maria Gregory Tabb, on the recent

death of her husband;
Cynthia Bemiss Stuart, on the death

of her father;
Evie If hite Spearman, on the death

of her brother.

From wliat I hear, 1947 will have a good
Reunion. Judy Burnett Halsey heard from
Mary Lib lick Thornhill and Barbara
Golden Pound that they will come, and
maybe Trudy ( ars Harris. Connie Clei'en-
ger Berg told Kay that she hoped to be
there. So did Liz Ripley Davey, Maria
Tucker Bowerfind, Sue Morton Sorenson,
Becky Knapp Herbert, Sue Van Cleve
Riehl, Ann Colston Leonard, Sara McMul-
len Lindsey, Ernie Banker Gerhard, and
Cecil Butler Williams.

Pat Hassler Schuber called when she was
in Lexington — 1 hated to miss seeing
her — and she assured me she was plan-
ning to come and would try to get Irving
Brenizer Johnston to come. And Sara
Bryan Glascock says she aims to make it
by hook or by crook. And if she can man-
age to leave her large production, the
rest of us should be able to. But as Sara
found out during a recent bout with pneu-
monia. "It's a lot of baloney about no one
being indispensible. Just found out I am!"
Jim took their three oldest boys (17, 16,
15) on a camping trip to Florida between
Christmas and New Years. "It was a
glorious experience . . . the milk quota
dropped from 20 to a mere 14 gallons for
the week."

bailie Bailey Remson will come to Re-
union. The Kemson's have just moved to
Illinois from Baltimore. "Jack works in
t.lucago; the children go to school in Ken-
ilwortli and 1 keep house in Winnelka."
(Address: 515 Meadow Rd.)

Kay Fitzgerald Booker unloaded this let-
ter-writing on me but, bless her, she passes
on the news too. She reports on Lu Lynn
Green Wilson who writes, "Bob and I liad
a week in San Francisco in October. Will
have our annual week in Aspen in Feb-
ruary. Last sununer we took a two-week
pack trip into the wilderness area with
all four cliildren and six horses. The
packer came back for us two weeks later."

Margaret Ellen White Van Buren is
enthusiastic about life in London. She
will come to this country for a visit this
summer but not in time lor Reunion. Sue
titzgerald Van Home and Van saw her
in London last summer.

Jackie itiiwell Clark is teaching at New-
town Friends School. Her children: Tony,
a sophomore at Lawrenceville ; Jane (11)
and Kevin (10).

Ginger Barron Summer will miss the
reunion because her daughter, Kathy, grad-
uates that weekend. I'wo sons. Lanky
and Bill, are in the 9th and 6th grades.
She writes that Lloyd has just been made
Executive Vice-President of National City
Bank and if anybody comes through Rome
(Georgia) and needs a check cashed, the
credit of '47 is good!

Mystery girl — there was no signature
on this card but the postmark is Salis-
bury, N. C. so 1 guess this is Jean Ann
this fall with Ann Brinson Nelson's son,
James, who is a cadet here. Fuzzy writes,
"Jim, who is with the Navy Department,
is at Gitmo, Cuba, for a month. This leaves
only four of us at home."

Gene Ray Minor's daughter, Vieve, is
a Freshman at Sweet Briar and loves it.
Her Jane is in the Junior class with our
Molly at St. Catherine's.

Saravette Royster Trotter writes: "We
are enjoying our new home . . . I'm get-
ting my teacher's certificate in English . . .
We opened a new theatre here in the fall
which we are thrilled over. I'm teaching
creative dramatics to Scout groups and
plan to do some directing.

Joan Littlejord Donegan has kept up
her interest in horses — says she'll come
to Reunion if we have a horse saddled
and ready for her. Tally ho!

Ann Marshall Whitley's family is settling
down to civilian life after many Army
years. Ann is interested in the Nelson
Gallery, the art museum where she has
become a decent and gives lectures and
conducts tours. She has also started a
new SBC Club in Kansas City.

Ginna Walker Christian, who has a hand
in running many civic endeavors in Rich-
mond, urges you to visit Jamestown Island,
one of her favorite interests. I can agree.
It makes a great family excursion. Tip;
if you go in July and the little one is
foot-weary, don't put him on your shoulders
while he's eating a popsicle.

Ginna showed me a picture of Marguer-
ite de Lustrac Laboret's magnificent new
house outside of Paris.

Martha Budd Shelnutt has had a busy
year — another debutante and a new baby.
.Sarah arrived August 19th to join Ann
(20). Jane (18), and Barbara (12). The

March 1967

son of one of their friends is the room-
mate at Williams of the son of her room-
mate, Elaine Davis Blackford.
Ferrier Ramsey. U'll never forget Wash's
memorable performance acting out "The
Birth of a Nation."') She writes, "John
and 1 had seven weeks in England, France,
Italy, and Spain ... 1 was thrilled with
it all and can't wait to go back. Anne
is a sophomore at Stephens; John, Jr. a
Freshman at UNC, and George and Ken
Craige in the 7th and 8th grades in Salis-
bury.

Joan McCoy Edmonds, Bill and the two
boys and a new puppy departed in January
for Brussels where they'll live for about
five years. Bill is Managing Director of
Coppee Rust. His sister will be living in
their Birmingham home so mail can reach
them via this address.

Aimee DesPland Gibbons lives in Ham-
let, N. C., where her husband, Phil, is in
the business of distributing fire and rescue
equipment and municipal supplies. Katie
is in the 10th grade at Stuart Hall and
Bridget ("Fogo'J is in the 5th grade.
Aimee is busy keeping up with the other
three and the usual school and church
activities, and is considering studying for a
teacher's certificate.

Sara Ann McMullen Lindsey is teaching
sociology at the Northern Virginia Exten-
sion of the University of 'Virginia. She
and Doug are busy in civic groups in Alex-
andria. Ihe younger Griffiths are: Douglas,
Bruce, Ann, and Robert; and it delights
me to hear that aU of the boys may head
for VMI.

We enjoyed a picnic in Goshen Pass

Ethan Taylor Leonard arrived January
24th to the joy of the family of Ann Col-
ston Leonard. Ann writes, "I understand
I'm in very good company with Mary Lib
and Ernie Banker."

Last summer Virginia Finley Shannon
joined Bozzie's bevy of beauties at Carr's
Hill. Eleanor and Edgar are on top of
a busy, interesting and entertaining life
there.

Mac and I had a wonderful evening
with Maria Tucker Bowerfind, Pete and
their tliree delightfid cliildren at Farming-
ton last summer. Maria and all of the St.
George Tucker descendents gathered in
Williamsburg last fall. Their joyful noise
was heard over the Blue Ridge.

Oochie Mayberry Todd writes that her
ornithology major has served her well.
She is in Australia studying the effects
of fear on ostrich eggs, and as a consul-
tant to VISTA, is working with local
Bushmen organizing a Little Theatre group.
Her eight children are great surfers, and
her husband is now Chairman of the Board
of the International Pogo Stick Company.
She's sick that she can't get to Reunion.

Please let the Gilliams know when you
come to Lexington. Mac is Professor of
Government at VMI and serves on the
Town Council. I work at the George C.
Marshall Research Library where an im-
portant collection of military and diplo-
matic history is being assembled, includ-
ing the papers of General Marshall. Jay
(15) is at Virginia Episcopal, and with
Molly away too, Catharine (10) keeps
life charming at home.

Only a few more months to shape up for
that romp in the dell. Hope to see you
there.

1949

Class Secretary: Margaret Towers Tal-
MAN (Mrs. Carter E., Jr.), 2 Huntly Rd.,
Richmond, Va. 23226.
Fund Agent: Carolyn Cannady Evans
(Mrs. Hervey, Jr.), Box 1724, Laurinburg,
N.C. 28352.

Happy New Year, all you forty-niners.
Please note that 1 have a new address;
No. 2 Huntly Road, Richmond, Va. 23226.
(It's the story of my life, but not yours,
so enough said.) Please also note that
there's a new regime. Class notes in only
two issues a year. Another directive says
births and marriages must be listed without
further comment, but this reporter doesn't
think they had our age group in focus so
1 promise you I'll relay as many glowing
details as you will furnish me in those de-
partments.

Witliout further ado I will now tell you
about our bride and baby. Alice Dahm
was married Oct. 15, 1966 to Herbert R.
Crane. They are living in St. Louis at
6803 Kingsbury Blvd. I'm told she met
him on the skiing trip to Colorado that 1
reported she was going to take last year
this very time.

Our new baby is Allison Craft Clark,
born to Ellen Ramsay and Ken Clark on
July 6, 1966. She's joining Ken, 12, Ellen,
11, Ramsay, 9 and Marshall, 7, but the
Clarks also added two more bedrooms to
their house over the simmier so they looked
pretty serene and smug on their Christmas
card picture.

And speaking of pictures, thank you
so much, so many of you, for sending me
pictures. Frankly those baby pictures 1
used to get all looked alike, but now
personality, family resemblances and ma-
turity are speaking out. Some of the boys
are looking more dignified than I remember
their dads in their courting days. Patsy
Davin Robinson's Sandy looks like he's
ready for the Green Bay Packers and al-
ready at 15 has a varsity letter as goalie
on the Detroit Country Day soccer team.
John, 13, and Woods, 10, are skiers and
Davin, 6, looks exactly like Patsy. The
Robinsons live in Birmingham, Mich, and
their boys attend camp with Anne Fiery's
boys.

Next picture — Ruth Garrett Preucel's
three: two boys and a girl, also looking
like her mother. The Preucels have built
a greenhouse and I hope the plants turn
out as profitably as the children.

Preston Hodges Hill sent a color shot
of her three on the hood of a red Jeep with
the Colorado mountains rising in the back-
ground. The children are the best look-
ing features in the scene: Gene, 15, six
feet tall; Margaret, 12, is brunette and a
horse-lover; Virginia, 10, has blond pig-
tails.

From Peggy Quynn Maples came the
top academic report, in quantity that is.
Sam is guidance counselor in a new high
school. Peggy teaches kindergarten in
another school. And the three children,
Allen, 15, Johnny, 12, and Margaret, 9,
are in tliree other schools. "Oh, that stren-
uous PTA circuit!" says Peggy.

Alice Dulaney Sheridan wrote me the
nicest letter. She and Danny live at Jack-
sonville (Fla.) Beach and have five chil-
dren. (Her letter came last April so

you'll have to prorate the ages) . Kathy
was 16; Leo, 13; Cobb, 12; Ginger, 10;
and Billy, 7. Alice teaches nursery school,
but summer before last took her children
to Milan by way of Paris for a visit and
grand tour of Italy with her sister who
lives there. Alice says she misses Nell
Boushall and Dick Steed who have moved
to Richardson, Texas with their four chil-
dren, Robin, Pam, Netzi and Richard.

Kitty Hart Belew now lives in Baltimore
in a rented mansion (700 W. University
Pkwy) . She sent me a clipping from
the Baltimore paper which told of Betty
Kuth and John Cleaver's children visiting
their grandparents while the Cleavers were
summering in England. The Cleaver
children are Susan, Mary Ruth and Chester
and according to this clipping Susan was to
enter Vassar in the fall, (traitor, ed.)

"Fritzie" Buncombe MiUard writes that
Grant's son who is 11, has come to live
with them full time which has made them
all so happy. This evens them up at two
boys and two girls. She goes on to say
that she is doing admissions work for SBC
in Lake Forest and becoming very enthu-
siastic about the College. "It really is a
good school" is her quote and a good note
for me to end on.

1951

Class Secretary: Wingfield Ellis Parker

(Mrs. Richard K.), Imperial Court Apts.,

A-4, 4282 Roswell Rd., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

30305.

Fund Agent: Terry Faulkner Phillips

(Mrs. Charles W.) 63 Lexington Ave.,

Buffalo, N.Y. 14222.

When you're not there to defend your-
self you get elected! That's what happened
to me at reunion, so you've got me as
your secretary for the next five years.
PLEASE keep me supplied with news!

Wish I could have attended reunion.
From all reports the 15th was the best
ever with all 51ers looking even more
glamorous than they did in '51. In the
travel business the one thing you can't do
in June is travel, so I had to mind the
agency in Nashville. Also I was plan-
ning a move back to Atlanta and a wed-
ding to Richard Kilpatrick Parker in
September. (Did you really tliink the last
wedding bell had rung for '51?)

Bill and Barbie hosier Edgerley came
from Illinois for our wedding. What a
busy and worthwhile life she leads! In
addition to mothering three exuberant
children (ages 12yo, H, and 9) and help-
ing Bill manage a large farm, last year
she was elected to the Board of Education
of a proposed junior college. She is
secretary of the Board as well as chair-
man of the architectural selection commit-
tee. By the fall of '69 doors of an en-
tirely new college will open to 3000 stu-
dents and there'll probably be an S.B.C.
influence on campus!

John and Nancy Keen Butterworth
Palmer brought their two children, Mary
and John, from Nashville to the wedding.
N. K. is another class member up to her
eyelashes in community affairs — church.
Junior League, garden club. Did you see
the Christmas issue of House Beautiful
featuring "Trees of a Nation" from Nash-
ville? That project was N. K.'s baby from

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start to finisli. Incidiiitally. slie ami Peggy
(Cliis) Chisholm got together last year
and visited Sweet Briar for a concert by
Miss Iren Marik. At that time Chis was
living a gay and stimulating life in New
York.

Speaking of magazine articles, be sure to
read the fascinating piece on Norway liy
("alvin Kenlfield (that's Mr. Red Fox) in
the November '66 issue of Holiday. Ruthie
accompanied him on most of that beautiful
trip and that's why she didn't make re-
union.

Kathy Phinizy Mackie writes that she
and Osborne and their four are still en-
joying life in Holland. I hope we'll have
a more detailed report from her next time.
Gardner and Mary .Tane Erirksen Ert-
man's Christmas card shows their greatest
gift of 1966 was little .Andrew, giving them
three girls and two hoys.

Orchids to Seymour Laughon Rennolds
for her delightful article in the last News
describing some differences and similarities
between today's college gals and us. Sey-
mour, you didn't tell them our skirts were
just above our ankles, did vou?

Congratulations to Jane Clark for her
first prize in the national writing contest
of the National Federation of Press Wom-
en for the best page edited hv a woman.
.As Women's Editor of the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, she's one of 'Si's busiest mem-
bers.

Archer and Louise Coleman .Tones have
just moved to Columbia. South Carolina
where he is Associate Dean and Professor
of History at the University.

Sounds like our class descends on Vir-
ginia Beach in July like the college kids
descend on Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Vaca-
tion. .Seymour writes she and John saw
Susan Taylor Hubbard and Clifford. Marie
Ironmonger Bundy and Nat, Carla de Creny
Levin and Bernie fa State Legislator),
Doris Brody Rosen and Martin. Carolyn
Sample Abshire was there passing out pens
advertising her "Iberian Imports" gift shop
in Alexandria.

The Alumnae Office advises the following
girls are missing: Diane Aubineau, Jeanne
Ford Tandy. Joan Gillespie McCormick,
Ann McCreery, Pauline Nichols Neal.
Maria Radford, and — would vou believe?
Joan Matter Andersen. No. I won't be-
lieve it! Nobody could possibly lose Mott!
Will anybody who has any knowledge of
the whereabouts of these class members
please notify the Alumnae Office or me.

Let's have a newsy five years 1 promise
to report it if you'll send it. So, to quote
ole' Dean, keep those cards and letters
coming!

1953

Cla.'is Secretary: Vircini\ Ditnlap Shelton
'Mrs. Thomas C). 2378 Hanover West
Lane. N.W.. Atlanta. Ga. .30.327.
Fund Agent: Mary Stagg Hamblett (Mrs.
Kenneth B.). 74 Craigmoor Rd., West
Hartford, Conn. 06107.

The last postcards sent out really pro-
duced a windfall! Thanks so much for
the news.
Vital Statistics:

Anne Joyce married Joseph Wvman Sep-
tember 21, 1966.

Hunter James was born to Faith Catlin
and Bob Peters. July 2, 1966.

(iaihy Munds Storek and Ben sent a pic-
ture of their adorable children, Mark (4)
and Karen (7), Ben is in real estate in
Tucson. Arizona.

The Bakers, Betty Moore and Rex and
their three boys have a wonderful life
on their farm in Zionsville, Pa. Betty is
taking courses to become certified to leach.
Indianapolis, Ind. is the home of Mar-
garet Long and Charles Parker. He is
sreneral manager of Herff Jones Jewelry
Mfgrs. and their children are .''usan (2)
Charles (7) and Peggy (9).

M. A. Mellen Root writes that John is
now with .American Packaging Corp in
Ohio. They and their three offspring took
a lovely 2-week boat vacation last sum-
mer on Lake Erie.

Connie Werly Wakelee, Dave and their
five children love living in Fair Haven.
N. J. They are right on the water and
only one hour from New York. Flo Pye
Any and Georgia Knoblock Smith are
other alumae living there.

From Eastville, Va., Kattv Turner Mears
writes that she and Ben have a son in
hoarding school now! — also two daugh-
ters, ages 12 and 2V2. The Mears went to
Bermuda and Eleutbera last vear.

Ann Leonard and Leland Hodges now
have a wonderful family of four adopted
children, Pamela and Priscilla (4'/4 year-
old-twins) . Allen, 2M'. and Margery, 8 mos.
From Man' Stairg Hamblett comes a plea
to resnond to her Fund Agent's letter! She
and John have two children and eniov
living in West Hartford. Conn., where he
is with an insurance agency.

In November Polly Sloan Shoemaker and
Timniv came to Atlanta again for the Ga.
Tech-LI. Va. football game. She is as full
of life as ever They and their two sons
live in Greenville where Jimmy is a lawver.
Carol Le Varn McCabe and Hugh live
in McLean. Va. with their two tiny daugh-
ters. Meghan and Caitlin. Before marrv'-
ing she spent a year as a free lance re-
porter in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
a"d also was women's editor for the
Washington Daily News. Now she is a
columnist and contributing editor of the
Washingtonian Magazine.

.After 2V> years of living and working
in Rome. Nan O'Keefe is back in the
States in Houston. Tex. There she works
for the Headmaster of St. John's School.
.She mentioned being at Anne Joyce's love-
ly wedd'n" along with Jane Yoe Wood.
Faith Catlin Peters. Jean Duff and Nancy
McDonald. Jane's darling 7-vear-old
daughter. Wendi. was in the wedding
wearing a long blue organza sown. lane
said that Anne and Joseph took a Euro-
pean honeymoon.

Ginny Robb has just returned from
Christmas vacation in Antigua to her iob
as math teacher at Grosse Pointe Uni-
versity School (her old alma mater).
.She's happy to be living in her own apart-
ment now.

Mary Kimhall Grier and family moved
into a house they built in Russellville. Kv.
last July. Her children are Ned (8) .
Betsy (6). and Roger (3).

The Congers (Ford and Courtnev Wil-
lard) have moved from Portland. Ore. to
Aiken. S. C. where they have a country
home on four acres of land complete with
a 22-sfall barn!

A letter came from Isolde Baisch Wer-
hahn in .Stuttgart. Germany, telling that
she and her husband (a tax lawyer) have
two lively children, Ina (9) and Peter (7).
Isolde hopes that any of you who come
to Germany will look her up.

After living in Paris 4% years. Jo Parks
and Ivan Husovsky and sons. Peter (2%)
and Hal (9) have moved to Westport,
Conn. Ivan is International Counsel at
Richardson-Merrell and travels around the
world.

Kay Vennard Le Blanc and Joe live in
.Short Hills. N. J. where Joe is Headmaster
of the Country Day School and two of
their children. Bill (8) and Elizabeth (9)
attend there, .'^he keeps busy at home with
three year old Jimmy, and also does volun-
teer work.

Elizabeth Mertz Barton writes from
Dallas, Tex. that she has four children
and is back in college getting her desrree
and then masters in special education
(handicapped children).

Carlyle and Patsy Brown and their four
children are still at Sweet Briar. Patsy 's
occupied as a den mother and also works
part-time at the Sweet Briar post office.

Plainfield, N. J. is the home of Anne
Vlerebome and John .''orenson. He is the
associate minister at the First Presbyterian
Church there. Their children are Mary
(5) and Mark (1.5 mos.)

Nancy Ord and Art Jackson are in Falls
Church, Va. with the'r four children after
beine overseas in Taiwan and Okinawa
for four years.

Jane Perry Liles and George iust re-
turned from a 2% week trip to Europe.
Last June they had a reunion at SBC and
Natural Bridge with Kitty, Katzy, Dale,
Maseie, Joan and husbands.

Georsia Mo'z and Jack McGhee live in
Bluefield, W. Va. where Jack is a lawyer
and municipal judse. Thev have two
ch'ldren: Allison (12) and John (2).
Georgia enjoys PTA, church work, playing
golf and travelinsr.

.Ann Saunders Miller and Lee moved re-
cently from Johnson City. Tenn. to Mem-
phis. She's working on her masters degree
in English.

Liz Ray and Pinkney Herbert and two of
their four hovs went to Jackson Hole. Wyo..
and California last summer for a fun-filled
vacation.

Georgia Rawls Askew and Hank live in
New Orleans now with their two girls.
-Allyson (10) and Janis (6). She srad-
iiated from ."^MU and he from Texas
.A fi M and is a chemical engineer.

Nan Locke and Frank Rosa have a three
year-old dauehter. Mary Nelms. Nan
teaches physical education to hi?h school
students three days a week and also plays
tennis and ffolf and skiis.

Ginaer Timmons and Dave Ludwick
recently moved into the dream house they
biiilt in the foothills of Bel A'r. Calif.
The children are Leslie (8'-;) and David
(3). Ginger is a board member of the
Junior Philharmonic and the Opera Asso-
ciation and worked diligently to get the
Reagans into the governor's mansion.

A long newsy letter came from Nancy
McGinnts Haskell. She and small daugh-
ter. Lucia, snent a week at ,SBC with
Miss Harriet Rogers. She loved the "new,
revised edition" of Sweet Briar and hopes
to send Lucia in 1982.

March 1967

That's all for now, but do send me your
news for the summer issue. As you noticed,
we have a new address. We built last sum-
mer and moved into this house in Septem-
ber. We have more rooms now and also
lots of children to play with ours.

1955

Class Secretary: Jank Felliis Welch (Mrs.

James S.), 30 Southwind Rd., Louisville.

Ky. 40207.

Fund Agent: Lydia Phimp Plattenburc

(Mrs. George S.), Box 448, Kemmerer,

Wyoming 83101.

Births:

to Shirley Sutliff Cooper, a second son.
Robert Montague. Jan. 20. 1966.

to Jane Dildv Williams, a third child,
a son, McKim, April, 1966

to Pam Compton Ware, a third son.
John Williams, May 19, 1966

to Clara Pfeiffer Rodes, a third child,
a daughter. Holly Larson, May 26, '66

to Chase Lane Bruns, a third child, a
son, Somner Lane, July 12, 1966

to Kathleen Peebles .Sattler. a second
daughter. Mary Taylor. July 19, 1966

to Joan Fankhauser Burrell. a second
daughter, Samantha Gai, Sept. 28. '66

There's no doubt but that Joan Fank-
hauser Burrell's flair for the dramatic is
still with her. Isn't her new daughter's
name divine! (I'm crushed I didn't th nk
of it for one of my girls.) It's been 11
summers since Joan was with the Briar
Patch summer stock theatre at Sweet Briar,
but she keeps her hand in by working
regularly with the Junior League Players
both on stage and backstage. This winter,
however, all of her energies are devoted to
the United Fine Arts Campaign of Cincin-
nati. .She is chairman of the entire individ-
ual subscribers division. I think an acco-
lade for Mrs. Burrell is in order.

In fact between her and Diane Johnson
De Camp a real precedent for civic involv-
ment is being set for the class. Not long
ago Diane was one of the two women
in the Cincinnati area to run for Villaee
Council. Thoush defeated by a mere 100
votes she gained tremendous experience.
and who knows, perhaps she'll trv aerain.

Procter and Gamble has moved Clara
Pfeiffer Rodes and Charles back to Cin-
cinnati after two years in Kansas Citv.

Speaking of moves, Jane Dildy Williams
and her family had a rather startlinr; time
in 1966. Hannily ensconced in Newport
News where Mac was in private practice,
the Williams were rocking along — a
Nassau vacat'on in March, a third child in
April — when to their shock Mac was
drafted. The familv moved to Southern
California in October where Mac serves
as a lieutenant commander at the San
Diego Naval Hosnital.

In October Liz Rector Keener's husband
Ross returned from Viet Nam weqrin";
major's leaves and a bronze star. While
Ross is assigned in Washington, D. C the
Keeners live in Snringfield. Va.

Having been at Northeast Harbor. Maine
for several years, Bexy Faxon Sawfplle and
Malcolm have moved to Millbrook. N. Y.
where Malcolm is rector of Grace Episcopal
Church. Maine enthusiasts, they plan to
keep their cottage and boat on Little
Cranberry Island to vacation there this
summer.

Betty Sanjord Molsler and Chuck were
on Mt. Desert, Maine last summer with
their three children.

Eager to cruise in the Ma ne area is
Honey Addington Passano and her hus-
band, Billy, who have this interesting prop-
osition to make. For a week or two this
summer they would like to swap either
their 32 foot sailing sloop (on which they
and their three ch'ldren have lived for
a month at a timet or their home in Gib-
son Island. Md., or both with any of you
who have the equivalent in Maine or any
part of the New England area. If any of
you do make these arrangements with
the Passanos I feel it only fair to warn you
that my cut for this free classified ad is
at least two days with each couple.

Nancy Clapp Cudlip and Bill are an-
other pa'r I wouldn't mind joining at their
vacation times if 1967 works out for them
as 1966 did. Last winter they took Anne.
9 and Billy, 7 to Florida for a week, and
in the summer they went to Harbor
Springs, Mich. Nancy is active with the
Arts-to-the-schools program sponsored by
the Junior League of Detroit.

Tinker Beard, vacationing from her job
with the County Municipal Court in Minne-
apolis, went to Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward Island. On her return she dropped
in to see Bar Black Somner and Bob and
their three darling children in Norwich.
Vt. The .Somners will be moving to Maine
this summer where Bob will be starting
out in his practice of dermatology.

After a fabulous trip to Europe last sum-
mer Gay Reddig spent the fall in an orien-
tation program of Industrial Insurance and
Pension Planning before beginning work
with an insurance firm in Cleveland.

Last summer the Plamp twins and their
families had a marvelous camping trip
together on the Oregon coast, after which
Lydia and George Plattenburg spent
a week with Bar and George Hunt at the
latters home in Lafayette, Calif. Back in
Kemmerer. Wy. Lydia, busy with the mul-
titude of duties required of a minister's
wife, continues to find time to serve us
as class treasurer, as well as to take
lessons in water-color.

Incidentally girls, as you and/or your
husbands begin work on vour tax returns,
don't forget the lov-er-ly deductions checks
pavable to the Sweet Briar Alumnae Fund
make . . . and write one.

With a few extra minutes in the .Atlanta
airnort recently I called Newell Brvan
Tozzer. Bu«v with her two pre-schoolers.
Brent and Ellen, she took time to fill me
in on the Atlanta girls. Frankie Marbury
Coxe is doing a tremendous job heading
up the decent training program at the At-
lanta Museum and Sue Laivton Mobley
serves on the Jimior League board as Pub-
lic Relations Chairman.

They're all hoping Nella Grav Barclav
and Rufus will be coming to Atlanta for
the ocera this spring so that they can
hear first hand an account of the Barclav's
trip to Europe. In Tours and Paris. Nella
visited the families with whom she. Newell
and Sue had lived during their junior year
abroad.

Our deepest sympathv goes to Betty
Bvrne Gill Chaney, whose father. Dr.
Elbvrne G. G'll. died last fall. You may
rememebr that senior vear Dr. Gill, rep-
resenting the parents of our class, addres-
sed us at a banquet at the college.

If all goes as i)lanned, as you read this
I'll be in the middle of a month's run of
Streetcar Named Desire (playing Blanche,
but of course, dahlings). Keep your fing-
ers crossed that I don't make a large fool
of myself.

And please write me. There are just 156
of us, so each of you is important to me!

1959

Cliiss Secretary: Tabb Thoriiloii Farinholt
(Mrs. H. B.), Ware Neck, Gloucester, Va.
23061.

Fund Agt'Kl: Fonnie Filzgercdd Lange
(Mrs. Richard), 1339 Rowe Rd., Schenec-
tady, N.Y. 12309.

Because of having no class notes last
time with the special issue, and the passage
of summer, fall and part of winter I feel I
have so much to catch-up on with the '59ers.
To make matters more mixed-up I was
unable to send out cards to the now long-
neglected last third of the class. My "ex-
cuse" for not getting those out is also my
reason for having seen and heard from a
good number of classmates. I wouldn't
h.ive heard from otherwise. I don't want
more time to elapse between columns —
you'll notice odd years this time — even
next — and no column without an explana-
tion of sorts — so here goes. On the morn
of Oct. 29 Blair and I were on our way
to Lynchburg, of all places, to an Anni-
versary Homecoming at the Virginia Epis-
copal School, his Alma Mater. A car com-
ing toward us blammed us head-on and
the car we were in is now scrap metal.
However, we are walking testimonials to
the miracles of modern medicine i.e. I
haven't been sold for junk yet. I probably
should be thrown out because I have been
spoiled to a rotten condition. As I write
this in the last week of January I'm soaking
up the sun which shines on breathtaking
beauteous Stocking Cay, in the "out Is-
lands" of Exuma. That should be enough
to want you to discard me with the gar-
bage, so I won't tell you of all the kind-
nesses from Patchers. I'll iust try to give
vou a run-down on the activities, first, those
I saw and heard from as a result of that and
then the wonderful ones who put a card
with a little news in the mail at Christ-
mas.

Among my first hospital visitors were
Betsy Duke Seaman and Mary Blair Scolt
Valentine. Both look better than ever,
which is going somewhere and impressed
me mightily on my subsequent stay in
Richmond with their royal residences and
precious progeny! Betsy has three children,
a boy and two girls. Mary Blair has two
girls.

My visitor from the greatest distance —
who later brought us a turkey on Thanks-
giving when we'd just settled back to norm-
al in Gloucester — was Betsy Pender
Trundle, class of '58, who came up from
Virginia Beach with her handsome hus-
band to entertain me.

lust missed seeing Courtney Gibson who
came to Richmond and by my parent's
when I was there. Courtney was there for
an Educational meeting. She is Principal of
an elementary school in Northern Virginia,
and from many sides I hear complimentary
descriptions of her abilities and activities.
Courtney lives in Alexandria. She sees

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Snowdon Durham Tyler occasionally. Snow-
den blessed me with a picture of her active
little yard-man, about two gaily raking
leaves, I think.

Tricia Coxe Ware and Lizora Miller
Younce happened to be visiting at the
same time in Richmond. Tricia had called
me before her arrival there from her home
in Charlotte and confessed she was a little
frightened of the drive to Richmond after
our story. They got to their destination
only to get bumped in a minor skirmish on
a street in town. Tricia came out of that
scrape with a wounded leg — which made
caring for her three adorable but rambunc-
tious rascals a bid hazardous. It was never-
theless much fun to meet, even under
such adverse conditions !

Also had a visit from Pickie Payne Hes-
ter whom I had seen a bit of at Virginia
Beach last summer — our children built
sand castles together — making a delight-
ful sight. She and Pat have a nine year
old daughter, a son seven, and another girl-
child, about four — a fine-looking bunch.
And at church I got a glimpse of Susan
Taylor Montague and her Ashley and Cay
Ramey Howard and her Miss-Cay. Both
little ladies are four now, and blossoming
sweetly. I was unable to get much news
from either Cay or Susan in the fleeting
meeting !

Some newsy letters came in though,
which I'll attempt to compress. Weezie
Marshall Cutchin is now in Triangle. Vir-
ginia with her Marine doctor husband, and
three sons, all of whom are in school now.
They are happy with militarj' life and the
life of the small community around Quanti-
co. Cookie Payne Hudgins has a similar
situation. She wrote (is an especially good
correspondent) from Columbus, Georgia
where they are now. Bob has finished at
the Mayo Clinic and is now in the Army
as a Neurologist. Cookie is one of the most
adaptable people I've encountered, and al-
ways able to get a good group together
and have a party. She enjoys any place
they ever go to the fullest! They like to
travel, in fact are planning a trip to Aspen
in March.

Soon to be moving, according to the
latest I've heard, is Fleming Parker Rut-
ledge. Her husband Dick is going up
fast with IBM so they are leaving Char-
lottesville for Tenn.. I think. More later
on that.

Newly moved also is Barbara Sampson
Borsch. Her husband, Fred, is a Profes-
sor of New Testament at Seabury-Western
Seminary and thev live in Evanston, III. She
is now pretty close neighbors with Ginny
Marchani Noyes. Pat Davis Sutker and
Sally Mayfietd Schreiner. Barbara, as usual,
is doing fantastic things, too many to
describe, often too incredible! I'm hoping
to lure her to Virginia before long. Also
want to get Judy Sortey Chalmers to our
stomping grounds since she's published her
father's book Lewises Of Warner Hall.
She is a descendent listed in this fascinat-
ing genecology and so am I, and probably
50'"^ of the Alumnae — and Warner Hall
is about ten minutes away from our house
in Gloucester County. Judy is still doing
her work with Admissions at Columbia's
College of Physicians and Surgeons. She
has two little people to keep her busy at
home too.

Another busy wife and mother is Kathy

Tyler Sheldon who is continuing to enjoy
life on New World Island, having many
visitors in the summer; and a visit to Eng-
land in October caught them up on things
social and cultural. She says "I seem to
get involved in all sorts of community life
and am teaching religion in the high school.
I am also writing worship services for the
International Journal of Religious Education
which keeps my brain "ticking over."

My news of Betsy Smith White came
from several sources, among them Marj'
Blair Sco/r Valentine who attended a Junior
League top-level meeting with her in Co-
lumbia. (Mary Blair said it was over-run
by S.B.C. and the girl who was with her.
not of our flock, swore she'd never team up
with a Sweet Briar girl again!)

Betsy said on Christmas card that for
them life is considerably more complicated
with three vs. two small children. I doubly
appreciated the time spent, knowing it's
precious !

Our class does have the most beautiful
children. I wish we could print all the little
people in the magazine. Among those that
also added a bit more light and laughter
to the season were Stuart, Cary and Lyons
Brown, children of Alice Cary Parmer and
Lee Brown, and Val and Steve Loring's
boys, Robbie and Tommy. I hope you will
all see the picture of Sue Wedderhurn
Murray's children which I'm sending to
the college. Though the picture is in
black and white one can still see the pink
cheeks of the highlands! Sue is now liv-
ing in Edinburgh, Scotland where "Ian is
teaching Latin and Greek at the Edinburg
Academy — a boy's private school, from
12 yrs.-18 yrs. in his part of it, but it
has a separate department from the age
of 5. where Keith has just begun, in his
school cap and blazer." Her children are
Keith. 5, Gillian, 3, and Alan. 5 months.
She says she loves to know when anyone
is passing through.

My only other Xmas card news was from
Jackie Hekma Stone, Gay Hart Gaines and
Sandy LaSlaiti MacDonald. Jackie and her
husband, Lanier, are living in Greenwich.
Conn, very busy with Amy, born April 15,
1966, and Francie. born August 13, 1964.
Gay and her husband, Stanley, have moved
to California. She loves the climate and
her pretty pink house! Sandy and Murdock
have four children now, Lisa, 6; Laurie,
4%; Duncan, 3^2; and Brendan, 4 mos.
She says, "have had a busy year, moved
to new home in July, and evened out the
family in Aug. This coupled with a few
tonsillectomies and various childhood mala-
dies have made the year fly."

And so it has — please don't let '67 get
by without answering Connie Fitzgerald
Lange's fund appeal and sending me a
newzy bit about yourself and friends. O.K.?

1961

class Secretary: Judith Greer SCHULZ
(Mrs. Stephen), 3810 Meredith Dr., Fair-
fax, Va. 22030.

Fund Agent: Kay Prothro Yeager (Mrs.
Frank J.), 2111 Avondale, Wichita Falls,
Texas 76308.
Births:

To Celia 'Williams Dunn, a son, Joseph
Laurence, Jr.. Jan. 17. 1967.

To lanna Staler Fitzgerald, a son, Robert
Edwin. Ill, July U, 1966.

To Claiborne Smith Jones, a son, Robert
Trent, III, Nov. 28, 1966.

To Lucy Israel Oliver, a daughter, Mar-
garet Mackall, March 31, 1966.

To Judy Bulluck Pattison, a daughter,
Jennifer Marie, August 23, 1966.

To Sally Matthiason Prince, a son, Ed-
ward Miner, Jr., Jan. 27, 1966.

To Judith Greer Schulz, a son, Stephen
Garth, Oct. 27, 1966.

To Sheila Haskell Smith, a daughter,
Kirsten, Aug. 17, 1966.

A big thank-you from the class to Janna
Sialey Fitzgerald for her fine job with the
class notes. Hope she will have more
time now to enjoy that baby boy!

Louise Cobb is on the other side of the
school desk again. Having earned her Mas-
ter's degree in June she headed to Califor-
nia for a vacation and in Sept. began teach-
ing English at Otterbein College, Columbus,
Ohio.

Another on the scholastic trail is Marilyn
Dreesman Chuang, who gained an M.A.
in political science and economics from the
State University of Iowa and was headed for
a Doctorate at the University of London
when marriage intervened. While living
in France, Marilyn enrolled in a French
Cuisine School, which she describes as
most traumatic. Now she and her hus-
band are settling in Geneva, Switzerland,
where he is beginning an importing busi-
ness.

Martha Ann Chandler Romoser, her Navy
husband Bill, and their two children —
Scott. 9 mos. and Marcie, 3 — have had a
delightful two-year tour in Hawaii and are
now moving to Norfolk. Va. for duty.

Law school continues to claim several
husbands. Carolyn Fusltr Meredith lives
in Baltimore and works for the Veteran's
Administration there while Michael studies
law at the L'niversity of Maryland and
works with the brokerage firm of Merrill,
Lynch. And Lou Chapman Hoffman fol-
lows husband Don to law school at the
L'niversity of Wisconsin after three years in
Paris where he was with the L^ S. Embassy.

Moving to a new home in Bryn Mawr
and gardening have kept Chloe Lansdale
Pitard. husband Dave and son Derrick busy,
as has Lucy Wood Oliver's move with hus-
band and children to Fox Chapel, a suburb
of Pittsburgh. Ginger Lutz Belser is also
busy painting and decorating a new home
with the help of Elizabeth. 9 mos. and Bur-
ney. 3l-j. Her husband. Townie. is an
attorney in Columbia. S. C.

Sheila Haskell Smith is caring for two
little ones and working with the Cleveland
Jr. Senile League and SBC alumnae group
while husband Lynn interns at St. Luke's
hospital. They expect to be off with I'ncle
Sam come July. Ann Sinwell Gaber also
manages Jr. League work, two children,
and Broadway plays and symphonies for
fun.

The Story twins are both .settled in At-
lanta. Winifred Storey Davis has two sons
and does Jr. League work while husband
Tread practices law. Margaret's husband.
Andy Abernathy. has begun private prac-
tice in medicine and Margaret is enjoying
being home with one-year-old Andrew IV.

Sally Matthiason Prince writes that even
with a one-year-old son she manages to
substitute and tutor English at Holton-Arms
School as well as give tours at the National
Gallery of Art. She also writes that both
Maury Bethea Cain and Sandy Brown

March 1967

Slaughter had sons this fall and that Teny
Reese was married in New York to Ian
Michie.

Besides caring for three daughters, Susie
Philion Babcock manages volunteer work
and tennis lessons and says that she and her
husband hope to be in Europe in April.
Sallv Hamihoi! Staub is busy planting SB
bulbs and keeping up with daughter Dab-
ney and son Richard. Sally writes that
Bambi liifF still loves working in Denver
and is doing Jr. League work there with
the handicapped.

The George F. Pace, Inc., Insurance Ad-
justers covers most of Virginia, writes Susie
Prichjrd Pace, whose car ("with two occu-
pied car seats") is always running to help
out the business.

The "working girls" in the class sound
busier than ever. Julie O'Neil Arnheim is
in her fourth year of work with Esso Re-
search and Engineering Co. and is presently
the reference librarian — a job as taxing to
the feet as to the brain, she says. Husband
Bill is chief spectroscopist at Interchemical
Corp. in Clifton, N. J. Also working is
Linda McAithur Hollis, who after three
years with NBC working mainly on the
TODAY show is now with A.T.&T. and
loves her job. She and husband Bob have
just moved to a house in Mamaroneck,
N.J., which they are enjoying redecorating,
and they plan a trip to Italy and Greece in
Sept.

1963

Class Secretary: Anne Carter Brothers
(Mrs. John), 4000 Iroquois Ave., Nash-
ville. Tenn. 37205.

Fund Agent: Karen Gill Meyer (Mrs.
James Edward), 4635 N. 22nd St., Phoenix,
Ariz. 85016.

Word from the far-flung class of 1963 —
from California to Germany. Go west young
woman is the message from Susan Alexan-
der, who writes that San Francisco is the
place to be. Susan is rooming with Heidi
Dillingham's cousin and working for an
engineering firm. McNair Currie Maxwell
and Bob are in school at LJCLA. Mac
started work on her MA in history after
Christmas. Carol Crowley Karm and hus-
band Bill are also living in the Los Angeles
area. Delighted to hear from Glenda
Carlson Woerheide whose husband is based
in Long Beach with Texaco. She taught
seventh grade last year and is now devot-
ing full time to their first child, Arthur.
Gini Joachitn Wade's husband Julien passed
his exams for a Ph.D. last fall, and she will
continue work for an educational publish-
ing house while he completes his studies
at Stanford.

Madison, Wise, is home for Leslie Smith
Elger, Rodney, and daughter Andrea Na-
dine, 13 mos. Rodney was discharged
from the sunbmarine service in August and
is attending Engineering School at the
Univ. of Wise.

Judy Kay Alspaugh finished her train-
ing in medical technology in Chicago at
Wesley Memorial in Feb. '65, and is work-
ing there and living on the North Shore.
She also sent news of Janet Hiestand and
Patti Knight Rea. Janet went back to
school, got her teaching certificate, and is
teaching in Danville, Ky. Patti's husband
Sam finished work on his Ph.D. at M.I.T.,
and they are now happily back in Houston,
Texas.

Lucetta Gardner Grummon is teaching
mentally retarded children in the Special
School District of St. Louis County. Her
husband Bill is a third year resident at
Barnes Hospital. Mandy McCormick
Cronin is busy with her second graders at
Edgewood School in Pittsburgh while hus-
band Paul completes his Masters in Social
Work. Prue Gay and Mandy can com-
pare notes. Prue is teaching second grade
also and sharing an apartment in Cam-
bridge, Mass. with Sue Jones. She spent a
challenging summer with ten college stu-
dents on the Experiment in International
Living in Basel, Switzerland. Sue took a
break in her work at Children's Hospital for
a summer trip to Hawaii. At the moment
they are probably both somewhere on the
slopes of New Hampshire with their ski-
club!

Their travels have also included a visit in
New York with Lyn Clark Pegg and Mary
Groetzinger Heard. Other big city dwellers
are Barby Rockefeller Bartlett and John,
who report strange sights from their "spot"
in Greenwich Village. Anne Leavelt Rey-
nolds continues to teach at Chapin while
Herbert finishes his second year of resi-
dency. Joan Johnston Ambrose represented
the NYC group at Alumnae Council.

Nancy Wood was on her way to France
to spend Christmas with her sister's family
in the French Alps when last heard from.
She is now probably back at Princeton
Theological Seminary studying for her Mas-
ters in Christian Education. She talked to
Lynne Shradin Bischel and saw Lisa Wood
Franklin, Ken, and their cute son in Sep-
tember.

Chapel Hill, N. C. is home for Punch
Harris Wray, whose husband Linton is an
intern at the university hospital. Punch
is struggling with the hospital computers!
Lucy Otis completed her Masters in Person-
nel Administration there at LINC. She
has a job in Charlotte with the North Caro-
lina National Bank as their first manage-
ment trainee. Lucy Boyd Lemon Edmunds
and Hugh are in 'Wallace, N. C. where is is
with J, P. Stevens Textiles.

The Atlanta contingent has grown. Betty
Stanly is there with Osborne Travel Serv-
ice and sees Nancy Dixon and Julie Ar-
nold. Olive Wilson Robinson and Roby
have two potential Sweet Briarites in Sara
3 yrs. and Trigg 1 yr.

We have a Tennessean now in Lyn Gabel
Allen. Dave is in Knoxville as a Sales
Representative for Eastman Kodak. Their
sons Billy and Peter are just darling.

Nancy Roberts Pope and Jim are in Nash-
ville while he slaves through his surgical
internship at Vanderbilt. His first boss
as an intern was my husband John, who is
a first year resident. Nancy is working
for the Methodist Publishing House. Mary
Trabut Meyer is a research librarian for
the Nashville Public Library. Julia Fort
is in library school at Peabody College.
She was in Nerissa J^om Baur Walker's
wedding in New York in Sept. Cynthia
Hubbard Strang and Bart are here also.
Cynnie is working for Genesco and keep-
ing up with a toddler.

The stork has been busy in Europe. Har-
riet Reese Jensen and Jorgen have two
young Danes, Marianne 2% and John 17
mos. Her parents visited them in Denmark
over Christmas, and then the Jensens were
off to Austria for skiing. Do you remem-

ber Ginger Gates Mitchell's bruises from
the Va. ski slopes.'' She wrote that she
brought a rather large piece of plaster
home to Germany from the Austrian slopes.
She now has Jennifer Bingham Mitchell
who arrived Dec. 5th to keep her out of
trouble.

How do you all look in your mini skirts?

1965

class Secretary: Alison Flynn, Box 1051,

Hobe Sound, Fla. 33455.

Fund Agent: Milbrey Sebring Raney

(Mrs. Richard B.), 9-B Towne House

Apts., Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.

Marriages:

Mary Ellen Freese to Dr. Alberto Cate,

October 8, 1966
Laura Haskell to Stewart Phinizy, III

October, 1965
Bonnie Hulse to Frank Young, Decem-
ber 17, 1966
Polly Jose to John Scafidi, August 13,

1966
Natalie Lemmon to Joe Parker, June 18,

1966
Elvira McMillan to Al Tate, June 11,

1966
Nancy Moog to Richard Aubrecht, July

2, 1966
Brenda Mullinghaus to Hugh Barger,

August 6, 1966
Melinda Musgrove to David Chapman,

June 11, 1966
Milbrey Sebring to Dr. Beverly Raney.

June 23, 1966
Belle Williams to Ware Smith, June 18,

1966
Dabney Williams to Timothy McCoy,

August 1966

Engagements;

Becky Hart to William Smith
Betty Boswell to George Atley
Aline Rex to Lawson Calhoun

Births:

To Katie Wood Clarke, a boy, Douglas
Kent Clarke, Nov. 1966

To Joan Clinchy Blood, a girl, Barbara
Elizabeth Blood, Aug. 26, 1966

To Sally McCrady Shumate, a girl, Anne
Dowling Shumate, July 9, 1966

Before I relate any class news let me
thank all of you who responded to my re-
quest and to those of you who continuously
keep me informed. It has been some time
since the last class notes and there is much
to tell . . . Natalie Lemmon Parker and
husband, Joe, are living in Raleigh where
Joe has entered the Bus Terminal Restau-
rant Corp. Nancy Moss and Jean Flana-
gan were in Natalie's wedding and at last
report Nancy was training for assistant buy-
ing at a department store in Atlanta and
Jean was a case worker for the Juvenile
Court in Atlanta. Jean Inge is now in Paris
studying at the Sorbonne and loving it. She
was in Austria during Christmas and plans
to go to Russia for Easter. Her address is
92 Quai Louis Bleriot, Paris, 16. Payson
Jeter is also in Paris, working for the Over-
seas Credit Service, a Swiss firm. In the
past year and a half she has travelled ex-
tensively throughout Europe and North
Africa. Her address is No. 67 Rue Madame,
Paris 6 — near the Luxemberg Gardens.

Becky Hart is teaching art in Columbia,
South Carolina and recently became engaged

Alumnae Magazine

to Bill Smith of Birmingham, a former
W & L and Harvard law man. Attending
Becky's engagement party was Augusta
Marshall who has been working as director
of the lung cancer division of the Univer-
sity of Alabama Medical Center.

Bonnie Chapman McClure and husband
are in London where Bonnie is the proprie-
tor of a small hotel — pension — actually a
fantastic mansion Bonnie manages for an
impoverished noble woman, and Bonnie is
eager for any Sweet Briarites to visit. Her
address is 62 Wellington Rd., London,
N. W. 8. While Bonnie keeps busy with
the hotel, her husband is doing graduate
work in Town Planning at the Architec-
tural Association School of London.

Babette Frasier is also in London work-
ing on her master's degree in British Poli-
tics at the London School of Economics.
Last summer she worked in the campaign of
Congressman George Bush of Houston and
on a recent trip to the states saw many mem-
bers of the Republican National Committee.
Babette will be in London until the sum-
mer and hopes to see many Sweet Briarites.
Her address is 43 Wilton Crescent, Bel-
gravia, S.W. 1. Babette has also seen Jo
Galleher at N.S.E. where Jo is working on
her M.Sc.

Polly Jose Scafidi and John are now at
the University of Delaware and will both
receive their master's in American history
in June. John holds a teaching Assistant-
ship and was a Boden Fellow. Polly holds
a Hagley Fellowship for study in American
Economic and Technological History.

Janie Merkle Borden and Lew are in
New York where Lew is associated with
the firm of Smith, Bonney & Co. Janie has
taken to the stage and was Gretel in a
children's theater production of "Hansel
and Gretel" in Englewood, New Jersey.
Barney Walker is now with the Red Cross
Clubmobile in Seoul, Korea and is enjoying
working with Korean orphans. Nivin
Snyder Stott and Jimmy are in Haverford,
Pa. where Jimmy is with the Philadelphia
National Bank.

Laura Haskell Phinizy is enjoying the
life of being a housewife. After a year of
working in a bank, cooking, sewing lessons
and work with EYC and Boys Club keep
Laura busy.

Alice Virginia Dodd received her mas-
ter's degree in Library Science at the Uni-
versity of Kentucky, and on January 3rd she
began a new job as a librarian in the Chil-
dren's Department in the Louisville Public
Library.

Katie Wood Clarke and family are in a
little Indian village on the Yukon River
where Dick is the Priest-in-Charge of St.
Paul's Mission. Hopefully, spring will see
the Clarkes travelling east to visit friends
and relatives.

Betsy Benoit is coming to the land of sun
to join me in a week of relaxation and
rest. After a summer's trip West, Betsy
has been teaching in Boston at an elemen-
tary school. She loves the children but
says it is hard work.

Carol Dudley, after completing her
M.A.T. at Emory, has been teaching ele-
mentary school at Westminister in Atlanta.
Dabney Williams McCoy and husband,
Tim, are in Jacksonville. North Carolina,
where Tim and some fraternity brothers
haye started a convenience grocery — simi-
lar to the 7-11 chain. Dabney has been
teaching a 5th grade class of 35 students.

Sallie Mullins is enjoying life in Palm
Beach and is teaching English in a brand
new junior-senior high school. In addition
to teaching, Sallie sponsors cheerleading,
does volunteer hospital work, and has been
working on her master's degree in Guidance
and Counseling at Florida Atlantic Univer-
sity. Sudie Donovan visited Sallie during
Thanksgiving, taking a vacation from her
job with Andersen and Co. in N.Y.C.
According to Sallie, Sue Fedeler is working
in Washington for the National Restaurant
Association. Phebe Harris is still in buyer's
training in Indianapolis and hopes to make
her first buying trip to N.Y.C. in February.
She hears from Molly Sutherland Gwinn
that Molly is taking German lessons, while
she and Byrd are in Mannheim, Germany.

Attending Bonnie Hulse Young's wed-
ding in December were Merrily Austin
Teasley. Carol Cole, Ann Lutz, Fran Han-
nahan, Phebe Harris, Melinda Musgrove
Chapman. Frank attended W.&L. and is
now attending law school at Cumberland
University. David and Melinda Musgrove
Chapman are in Birmingham where David
is with I.B.M. and Melinda is working as
a research assistant in Psychology at the
University of Alabama Medical Center.
Ann MacClintock got her master's degree
in English from U. Va. and is teaching in
a Virginia prep school. Betty Boswell has
been working on her master's degree in
psychology at the University of Alabama
and recently became engaged to George
Atley who is working on his Ph.D. in the
same field. Belle Williams Smith and hus-
band, Ware, have moved to Roanoke, Va.
after spending six months in N.Y.C. where
Ware was in a training program for Francis
I. duPont (stockbrokers). While in N.Y.C.
Belle saw Mary Parke Johnson, and Bunny
Sutton — the latter working for Little,
Brown in Boston. In addition to a busy
"tourist" schedule Belle appeared on the
TV program "Password." Also in Roanoke
is Harriotte Dodson, who is teaching math
after a summer's tour of South America to
visit her sister in Peru. Vicky Thoma is
still in the Peace Corps in Venezuela. She
has had much opportunity to travel — dur-
ing Christmas she had planned to go to
Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.

Sandy Allen White is now in New Haven
where Larry is in his second year of Archi-
tectural school. Larry has been working on
a housing project for a poverty area in
Southeastern Kentucky. Sandy is working
in Beintcke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library doing a variety of jobs. George and
Margie (Rand) Chapman have been work-
ing hard after a summer's tour of Europe.
George is still studying theology and has
a church in Bedford, Mass., while Margie
is working at M.I.T. Jane Moore Stubbs
is now in Durham where Buzzy is in his
third year of law school at Duke. Mibs
Sebring Raney and husband, Beverly, are
in Chapel Hill where Bev is doing his
residency. Since Labor Day. Mibs has been
working in Admissions of U.N.C. evaluat-
ing transfer students.

Alice Haywood is in Richmond teaching
math. During Christmas she worked at
Miller and Rhoads's Stag Shop as a hostess,
She sees Mary K. Lee MacDonald who is
still working with the C&P telephone com-
pany. In November the company sent Mary
K. to S B.C. to talk with seniors about
opportunities with the phone company. To
keep busy, Mary K. has enrolled in an art

course at the Virginia Museum and she
is also "grand mistress" of an apartment
building in Richmond — a wise investment
of C&P wages. Last fall Mary K. sent
an article about Pat Goldman, our illus-
trious Freshman Show director. Pat sailed
in September for Monte Carlo where she
was to perform as a member of Les Ballets
de Monte Carlo. Pat received a B.S. in
Economics from Columbia and while in
N.Y.C. also studied at the American School
of Ballet and the Ballet Russe School.

Sally McCrady Shumate and Hayne are
now at Ft. Meade while Hayne completes
his military service. Before studies were
interrupted Hayne was workine on his
Ph.D. in math at Tulane and Sally was
working on her master's in English. Nancy
McMeekin is still working for the Navy at
Johnsville and is taking a graduate course
in mathematical physics at Drexel - — the
only girl in her class. To keep busy Nancy
has been doing much riding and recently
became the proud owner of a horse. In
September, Nancy toured Scotland by car
and spent a night with Jean Murray's par-
ents. Jean is now teaching in the States —
her address is Kent Place School, Summit,
New Jersey.

Marianne Micros is working for a Greek
travel agency in N.Y. Sachiko Takemura
is working for the Pakistani Embassy in
Tokyo. Nancy Moog Aubrecht is a secre-
tary in the College of Architecture at Cor-
nell while Dick is working on his Ph.D.
in mechanical engineering. Betsy Knode
Campbell has moved to Cincinnati. Elvira
and Al Tate are in Atlanta where Elvira
is teaching the 6th grade at Lovett school.
Also, teaching in Atlanta is Aline Rex.
Alice and George Foster have moved to
Winston-Salem, N.C. and often see Douglas
Noell Huffines and Robert. The Huffines
have moved to Asheville, N.C. where Rob-
ert is a loan officer at a bank and Douglas
is busy decorating the house and looking
after Robbie, age 2.

Saralyn McAfee Smith and Hamp are in
Valdosta, Ga. Saralyn substitutes at the
local high schools and Hamp is undergoing
pilot training. Libba Hanger Luther and
Steve have moved again, this time to Hon-
duras where Steve is the head of a Texaco
office. Libba is enjoying the climate and
says her Spanish is improving.

JoAnn Moricle has returned to Reids-
ville, N.C. and is working for Creighton
Shirtmakers. Traylor Rucker has just moved
to a new apartment in N.Y.C. and continues
to enjoy working in the hospital and she
is busy planning a summer trip — hope-
fully to Europe. Speaking of Europe, last
summer Jane Hamill and I had a marvelous
eight weeks' tour of Europe — travelling
by boat, train and car. Needless to say I
would love to return, especially to the
Emerald Isle. In September, Janie returned
to Cincinnati to continue working for the
Historical Society and I returned to Flo-
rida, to continue teaching math in Palm
Beach. I have been kept busy with "school"
work, moving into an apartment, and plan-
ning next summer — a cruise to the Ba-
hamas on a sail boat acting as chaperone
for a summer camp, and then a trip West.
That is all the news I have accumulated —
if yours did not appear — remember there
is a summer issue and I need to hear from
all, especially the silent ones.

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so dear to the heart of Sweet Briar students. Alumnae are now
invited to "sit on the Golden Stairs" once again as part of the
new group being announced this month by the Alumnae Fund
Committee.

Each alumna who makes a gift of $250 to Sweet Briar this
year will have her special place on the "Golden Stairs" and be
a charter member of this circle. There are 250 places and
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contents

Meta Glass 1880-1967

President Emeritus Meta Glass

Resolutions from the Faculty

A Tribute to Miss Meta

Jane Belcher, Professor of Biology

As I Remember Her

Martha von Briesen '31

As I Remember Her

Margaret Banister '16

A Symposium from the Students

Shelley Gearhart '67

Contemporary Art and Thought,

A Review from Sweet Briar

Nancy St. Clair Talley '56

Briar Patches

The Arts at Home (SBC)

They Shall Dance

They Shall Have Music

They Shall Design

For Love, Not Money: Harper Lee

William E. Smart, Jr.

Assistant Professor of English

Quo Vadis, Art Major?

A Writer Asks, Has Sweet Briar Changed?

Mary Lee Settle '40

Meta Glass

1880-1967

Dr. Meta Glass, president emeritus of Sweet Briar
College and one of the country's leading educators died
March 20 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Miss Glass was
president of Sweet Briar from 1924 until 1946.

Born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1880 Miss Glass at-
tended the Lynchburg schools and received the AM
degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College at the
age of nineteen. She twice returned to her alma mater
as a member of the faculty, as an assistant from 1901-
1904 and again from 1914-1918 as assistant professor
of Latin. The PhD degree was earned from Columbia
University in 1913.

After America entered the war in 1918 she became
secretary with the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion in France and later was dean of a Training School
for European Women in Paris serving with the World's
Community YWCA. For her work in France during the
war she was awarded the Reconnaissance Francaise.

After her return to the United States she became
assistant professor of Latin and Greek and assistant to
the director of the university e.xtension of Columbia
University, which position she held until she became
president of Sweet Briar College.

Among the many offices Dr. Glass held in educational
organizations was the presidency of the Association of
American Colleges and the presidency of the American
Association of University Women, representing the latter
organization abroad on four occasions. She was also
honored by many colleges and universities, receiving the
LittD from Columbia University in 1929, the LLD from
the University of Delaware in 1934, the LittD from
Mount Holyoke College in 1935. the DCL from the
University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., in 1936,
the LLD from Brown University in 1937 and the same
degree from Williams College in 1940, Wilson College
in 1945 and the University of North Carolina in 1946.

After her retirement in 1946 as President of Sweet
Briar, Miss Glass remained a member of the Board
of Overseers until 1958. At a gay Christmas party
given at Sweet Briar that year in her honor, Mr. Thomas
Boushall presented her with a Resolution which read
in part . . . "The Board recalls with pride that under the
administration of Meta Glass Sweet Briar College be-
came nationally recognized for academic excellence.
The two decades of her wise and stimulating guidance
constituted a period of significant development. The
faculty was increased from thirty-eight to fifty-five
members — scholarly men and women drawn from the
best colleges and universities in this country and abroad.
Despite the depression of the '30s and the College's
limited resources. Miss Glass managed Sweet Briar's
finances so well that faculty salaries were never cut and
sabbatical leaves and a retirement plan were instituted.
Miss Glass was never satisfied with the status quo. Her
great concern for improving the curriculum was largely
responsible for introducing the Honors Plan of Study,
comprehensive examinations, and the Junior Year at St.
Andrews and in Paris; for reorganizing the curriculum
under the Group Plan of Study; and for establishing
such new major offerings as Music, Art, and Religion.
Her special concern for the Library, as the intellectual
center of the campus, resulted in Fergus Reid's magnifi-
cent gift to the College, the Mary Helen Cochran Li-
brary, and in the remarkable and continuing growth of
its collection. The Daisy Williams Gymnasium, the Book
Shop, and a number of faculty houses were also added
to the campus. The record of her administration set
forth in Tlw Story of Sweet Briar College is aptly char-
acterized as the College's 'Coming of Age.' . . . Those
who have been associated with Miss Glass at Sweet
Briar — faculty, students, alumnae, overseers — cherish
her qualities of mind and heart, her commanding pres-
ence, her love of scholarship, her enjoyment of the good
life, and her abiding interest in Virginia and in world
affairs."

President Emeritus Meta Glass

Since its founding more than fifty years ago, Sweet Briar
College has prospered under the direction of five able presi-
dents, each of whom — endowed with qualities quite different
from those of her predecessors or of those who have followed
her — has made a unique contribution to its life and growth.
The president who so far has held the office for the longest
term was Dr. Meta Glass, who served from 1925 to 1946.
She was, first of all, a woman of character and vision; she was
also a person of wide and varied interests and of international
reputation; but during her term of office the individual per-
sonality and the public figure were fused to become the college
president, for Sweet Briar was ever her foremost consideration,
everything else being subordinated to it.

Miss Glass became president of the College at the beginning of the Great Depres-
sion, when the endowment was far less than even one million dollars. Her im-
mediate problem was how best to spend the money available: to keep the buildings
In repair or to keep the faculty contracts. She chose the second course. No faculty
member was dismissed as expendable and no faculty member suffered a reduction
or postponement of salary — an enviable record for any college during those years.
The buildings were repaired later! During the next decade Miss Glass Instituted
two new benefits: sabbatical leaves for the faculty and an annuity plan for both
faculty and other personnel. These two innovations indicated her continuing con-
cern for the welfare of those employed, by the College.

The student body in the late 1920's numbered about 450. Miss Glass learned not
only the names but also the identities of as many of the 450 as possible. She was
present at student functions both social and academic and entered into these activ-
ities with Interest, humor, and sympathy. In the Shakespearian May Day of 1937,
she was well cast as Queen Elizabeth, for in her brilliance, her imperious but graci-
ous manner, her love of the graceful compliment, and her solid common sense she
invariably evoked a comparison with Glorlana. F6r this small and struggling col-
lege Miss Glass had the aim of "gracious living" and though the early days were
passed in which there had been peacocks on the academic lawns, there was still
a good deal of charm and general sociability to temper the hard work of both stu-
dents and faculty. And hard work there was. With her keen mind, her scorn for the
easy, the slip-shod and the careless, and her low opinion of pigeon-holed knowledge.
Miss Glass set a high standard of academic excellence.

Furthermore, she was determined that this rural College should not automatically
become a provincial one. As president of the American Association of University

Resolutions from the Faculty

Women, Miss Glass represented the AAUW abroad and she took the College with
her wherever she went. The names of few small American colleges have become
so widely known as has Sweet Briar's. Under her leadership the highly successful
program of exchange students with St. Andrews University was inaugurated, and
Sweet Briar also became a participant in the ambitious program of what was then
called only the Junior Year in France, under the aegis of the University of Dela-
ware. The program of the Honors Plan of Study, designed for the specially gifted,
the ambitious, and the thoughtful, for many years produced outstanding students of
whom the College could be particularly proud.

As a classicist. Miss Glass was a firm believer in the worth of form and decorum
— but not necessarily of the decorous. She took delight in the unexpected, whether
in action or in witty speech, and one of the sources of her charm was her ability to
recognize the value of the suddenly informal. To her young instructors she was easily
accessible, concerned for their problems, and purposeful for their growth. Character-
istically she recognized high potentialities in each individual and, by so doing, drew
out the best in him.

Unless she was away from the College, Miss Glass was always at chapel on week-
days and often held the Sunday services herself, in the auditorium of Manson Hall,
then called The Chapel. Her aim was to have a non-denominational service which
would appeal to all, for she felt a true concern for the religious life of the College.

When Miss Glass reached the age of retirement and built the house in Charlottes-
ville in which she lived for many years, it seemed eminently suitable that she should
name her home Ipsissima, as a reflection of her own personality. No one would ever
mistake her for someone else, and for hundreds of Sweet Briar alumnae and for many
present and former members of the faculty she holds an unforgettable place in their
lives and hearts.

Lois Ballenger

Lysbeth Muncy

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Laura Buckham

Ethel Ramage

Sarah Thorpe Ramage, Chairman

A memorial service for Miss Glass was lield at
Sweet Briar on Saturday, April 22nd as part of the
dedication of the Memorial Chapel. The chapel was
filled with those who had come to honor the memory
of this remarkable woman. This tribute was given
by Jane Belcher, Professor of Biology.

HEN I was ten a Vermont beekeeper intro-
duced me to the mysteries of the hive, removing
rack after rack from one of those old fashioned,
square, be-stilted cases with a rock on top. Each
rack was so filled with bees crawling over comb that
I wondered how Mr. Tennien could spot the tray
bearing the queen. He told me to look closely. I
then realized that on one tray there was a kind of
pattern in activity, almost like lines of force in a
gravitational field. And at the focal point, larger
than life, was the queen. I was reminded of this phe-
nomenon more than once during the time I knew
Miss Glass. She was a many-faceted woman whose
effect on her associates was immediate, penetrating,
and as complex as her own personality.

That Miss Glass was real and larger than life is
evidenced by the stories which have accumulated
around her. Just mention post box. Home Nursing,
Meg, gracious living, Mr. Baird. turkey, Mrs. Bur-
ford, Reuben, noise in the dorms, telephones.
Mount San Angelo, Carl Connor, Faculty Show,
freshman reading — and the Meta-phile is off and
running. Only a woman who combined wit with
ideas, imagination with action, who spiced routine
with the unexpected, could leave such a collection of
gems. To know her at all was to know at least a part
of her intensely. I reacted, according to the circum-
stances, with terror, with admiration, with resent-
ment, with approval, with distrust and trust, with
rancor and with love, with tears and with giggles.
Life was not dull.

I could wish that the faculty spokesman on this
occasion had been selected from among the emeriti
who, knowing her through more seasons and crises,
would have been more eloquent. In many ways I
must have still been adolescent in my thirties when I
knew her best, and there were others like ir.e. Even
our century was adolescent. How did she put up
with our callowness, our pettiness, our youthful ar-
rogance, our iconoclasm, our gauchery? There was
one thing which she could not endure, however, and
that was a trifling human being; perhaps we can
congratulate ourselves that whatever our miserable
faults, we cared intensely about things larger than
ourselves — our disciplines, our teaching, our college;
part of this caring was an infection from our Presi-
dent. Like us, I suppose, she had faults, but she was
never trifling, nor did she tolerate trifling behavior in
others.

We biologists and our kinfolk the psychologists
are being tantalized over the presently emerging
prospect of explaining memory in physical terms — a
cell product, stored in the brain, not unlike the cod-
ed information we call genes — this memory sub-

Miss Glass was guest of honor at a dinner given for her
on April 27, 1946 by Jhe faculty and staff. Shown here are:
Wallace Rollins, Caroline Sparrow, Dora Neiil Raymond,
Meta Glass, Carl Connor, Eugenia Morenus, Emily Dutton,
Mary Ely Lyman, Linda Brown, Eugene Lyman.

Stance, then, perhaps consists of molecules whose
sequence of constituent parts and general architec-
ture are coded information about the past; these
giant molecules are formed during the life of the
individual, by the individual, are utterly unique to
him, and wait in the wings, as it were, to serve as
his own basis for recall, for Remembrance of Things
Past. I like to think of Miss Glass as a molecular
colossus in Sweet Briar's coded memory, a physical,
immutable, and unique structure in the institution,
whose inherent and particulate detail makes our past
live, illuminates the present, and helps to determine
our future. Like the individual, the institution lives
in time, and its development reflects the combined
action of inheritance and a constantly changing envi-
ronment.

A Tribute to Miss Meta

by Jane Belcher

J\ n article which I recently wrote for the Alumnae
Magazine on changes at Sweet Briar quite unexpec-
tedly ended on a Green Pastures note, with some of
our old friends peeking at us from their cloud. I
realized that something was missing, that the com-
pany of friends seemed a bit fuzzy, directionless ex-
cept in their focus on Sweet Briar. Miss Meta died
at about the time the magazine came out and I had
an immediate sense of relief — all's right with the
world, or rather with heaven. On the day of her
departure — or arrival — the weatherman predicted
electric storms. Anyone who had observed her effect
on First Floor Fletcher or on the Instruction Com-
mittee would have said such a prediction had at
least a 75% chance of fulfillment. Since there was
no lightning over Sweet Briar I conclude that Miss
Meta was in amiable mood, ready for the reunion;
she perhaps raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips
at signs of disarray, but in short order had her com-
pany in formation and ready for the first business of
the day. I can see them all — Genie Morenus taking

attendance, the Dews, and Carl Connor, Dora Neill
Raymond, and Helen Mull, Dee Long, Eva Sanford,
Birdie Sparrow, Pop Worthington and Joe Barker,
Miss Lucy Crawford and Mary Pearl — the Court
around their Queen, as on May Day, 1937 — mixing
tears and laughter over the Old Days, over our own
two-steps-forward-one-step-back progress. But they
reminisce only during coffee breaks, for they are
real, they are in business, and with one month of
orientation, they know where they're going, who's
going first, and who will be the spokesman when they
present themselves for official accreditation.

If I have seemed flippant or frivolous, or unaware
of the dignity of our surroundings or of my proper
obligation to the Faculty and to Miss Glass, forgive
me, for I have meant no offense. We would not be a
Faculty if we didn't disagree on almost everything,
but we who knew her speak with one voice about
Miss Meta — she was of heroic proportions, a Great
Lady, one of Sweet Briar's dominant Facts of Life,
and — a toast to her — our much loved President.

As I Remember Her

by Martha von Briesen '31

.N my first meeting with Miss Glass after I became
a member of the stalT she remarked, characteris-
tically, "I'll help wherever I can, but don't bother
me with a lot of details; you'll have to work those
out for yourself."

Miss Glass was as good as her word; she did help
whenever I asked her. and through our discussions
of problems and possible solutions I learned to ap-
preciate her wisdom and her high standards in mat-
ters academic and humanistic. Her guidance was
sound and sure.

Not that we always saw eye to eye. She relished
a good argument and she respected those who dis-
agreed with her, if she found their reasons valid. And
I never knew her to hold a grudge against any of us
who had aroused her ire.

The years during which I served under Miss Glass
were the last four of her administration, three of
them under the dark shadow of war. Professors left
to go into military service or to posts in the govern-
ment; students were under great emotional strains
as their fathers, brothers, friends, fiances and even
a few husbands were sent to far combat areas; econ-
omy measures and wartime regulations added more
burdens.

Miss Glass was deeply concerned with all these
problems, and more. Her first concern was to main-
tain the academic standards in spite of a diminished
faculty (almost everyone took on added teaching
duties); her second was the students, who needed
persuasion and encouragement to remain in college
instead of leaving to enter some kind of war work.
With acceleration, formal graduation exercises were
added at mid-years, to give each departing senior
some feeling of academic achievement normally im-
parted at commencement.

Miss Glass led the way or lent a hand in various
community enterprises, from raising funds for war
relief agencies to discussions of current affairs and
plans for post-war developments in the world and
on the campus, and impromptu measures to boost
student morale. She presided with pride and dignity
when seven seniors in the Class of 1944 were sworn
into the Women's Army Corps in April, with entry
into the service deferred until after graduation. With
equal aplomb, she initiated the faculty-staflf volun-
teer corps to man the soda fountain at the Inn for
an hour each evening when the staff-shortage threat-
ened the closing of this one small recreational haven
for students.

Miss Glass enjoyed telling stories, and to her hs-
teners the ghosts who inhabited Sweet Briar House
became, paradoxically, real. She also enjoyed re-
counting many small humorous incidents, pulling
them out, as she said, "from my grab-bag mind." Her
innate dignity never obliterated her sense of the
ridiculous, never kept her from telling a joke at
her own expense. As she walked about the campus,
her sharp eye caught everything from the appearance
of a bulletin board or a student room to matters of
greater importance to the community welfare. She
knew most of the staff by name, and many were in-
clined to report their problems and concerns direct-
ly to her. A maintenance worker appeared at her
office one day and asked her to come and look at
a hole he had dug, in pursuit of a leaking pipe. "I
went to look," she reported with a laugh, "but I
didn't know what 1 was supposed to make of it."

Fund-raising was not a congenial task for her.
Looking back, I realize how often she must have
been discouraged and disheartened by rebuffs and
refusals. Corporations and foundations in general
were not contributing much to women's colleges,
nor were individuals. Often Miss Glass was told that
Sweet Briar was rich and didn't need money!

I recall this vividly as a period of extreme econ-
omy when every expenditure was carefully scrutin-
ized and weighed in advance. To Miss Glass, who
had inherited a sizeable deficit after the construction
of Fletcher and Reid, every penny saved was im-
portant. By careful management, in spite of the
long depression years which added to her financial
problems, the deficit was slowly erased. Surplus
funds, painfully gained, were added to endowment.

Endowment, more than anything else, was sorely
needed to assure a measure of security for the future.
This was deeply impressed on all of us. Miss Glass
took rueful pride in knowing that twice during her
administration Sweet Briar was invited to submit
credentials to Phi Beta Kappa. Twice to her deep
disappointment, they were turned down, "because
your purse does not match your performance," as
she put it. Endowment, or lack of it, again!

The establishment of the Meta Glass Fund for
General Endowment, which had reached $100,000
at her retirement, was for her the most prized recog-
nition of her aspirations and struggles for Sweet
Briar.

May Day 1937 and Sweet Briar turned time back to the
Elizabethan age. Miss Glass reigned as Good Queen Bess.
Miss Meta relaxed on the steps of Sweet Briar House
(below) with Lt. Cmdr. Mildred McAfee, President of
Wellesley, 1943. The Scotty is Miss Meta's beloved Meg.

"Uncle Joe" Barker and Miss Meta take their turn at th(
soda fountain in the Inn during World War II. Miss Glas.v
was always elegantly attired. Below: The finale of the facultj
show in 1938 finds Miss Meta. Dean Dulton and Miss Evii
Sanford, Professor of History, floating on a cloud.

T^HSIS

Meta Glass at age 17, student at Randolph-Macon from
which she graduated at age 18. Below is a picture of Miss
Class in her YWCA uniform, taken in France.

At age 24 Meta Glass was an instructor at her alma mater,
Randolph-Macon. This formal picture was talien shortly
before President Glass retired from Sweet Briar.

As I Remember Her

by Margaret Banister '16

I > FF eef, ccf gang geef, ich tomalacka, ich to-
malcef, imberti geef, imberti goff, goff, goff." I
wonder how many people there are, of the many,
many who knew Meta Glass at various stages of her
long life, who ever heard her "do" Eef eef. Not
many, 1 imagine, and that is a pity, because to hear
it and to sec it was an experience. "Came to a river,
couldn't get across. Paid fifty cents for an old blind
horse. Horse wouldn't pull, swapped him for a bull;
bull wouldn't holler, sold him for a dollar. Eef, eef,
eef gang geef." On and on the verses would go.

Meta Glass was a tall woman whose brown hair
began to turn gray when she was in her thirties. She
was humorous, gracious, firm, dignified, and she
could be very impressive. She was neither dignified
nor impressive when she did eef, but she was
screamingly funny. She had the ability to throw her
well-coordinated body into a shambling pose,
shoulders and knees bent, arms hanging loosely at
her sides, head jerking rhythmically backwards and
forwards, and the absurd words coming out between
her teeth in curious little sibillant explosions, espe-
cially the go-f-f-fs.

When Meta graduated from Randolph-Macon
with a master's degree at the age of eighteen, she
taught for a year at a small private school in Wythe-
ville, Virginia. The next year she went to a small
private school in the mountains of Kentucky, where
she taught for two years, and it was from Kentucky
that she brought back to Lynchburg the "eef, eef"
saga. Being the youngest of a family of twelve
brothers and sisters, she had innumerable nieces and
nephews, among whom I was one. She was very
fond of children and good with them. She had a
great ability to amuse and entertain them. All during
my childhood the high point of entertainment was to
get Meta to do "eef, eef." As she grew older and
took on academic laurels and dignities, she per-
formed less and less often, but even then it was pos-
sible to persuade her to do it on special occasions.

There is one story about this performance which I
cherish. Several years after she left Sweet Briar and
was living in Charlottesville she was asked to go to
Turkey to serve for three months as a visiting ob-
server at the American Woman's College in Istan-
bul, to appraise the curriculum and teaching and to
give advice. At that time one of her nephews. Rear
Admiral Richard Glass, was in charge of the Ameri-
can fleet in Greek waters, with headquarters in Ath-
ens, and while she was in Turkey Meta paid a visit

to him and his wife. One night she was taken to
what might be called an international Sunday night
supper club, composed of members of military and
diplomatic missions of foreign countries stationed in
Athens, who met at each other's homes on Sunday
evenings. After arriving at her hosts, Meta was filled
with consternation to learn that each person present
was expected to contribute in some way to the eve-
ning's entertainment. Some of them played musical
instruments, or sang or recited or otherwise per-
formed according to their abilities. Meta was
horrified. She played no musical instrument, she
couldn't sing, her mind was devoid of recitations.
She could think of nothing that she could do. She
delved back into the past, and in desperation she
dug up the old favorite. So when her turn came, that
is what she did. There was the distinguished, white-
haired American educator standing up in a room
full of foreign VIPs performing the absurdities of
"eef, eef, eef gang geef." Meta told us about it when
she returned, emphasizing her discomfiture at the
situation. Her nephew's version, when he came back
to this country, emphasized the effect of the per-
formance on the hearers. It was, he said, the fun-
niest thing that ever happened to them. It brought
down the house; it had the generals and the admi-
rals and the diplomats rolling in the aisles, so to
speak. They had never heard anything like it, and I
am sure that is true, because I don't think there was
anything like it.

Ivleta brought back from Kentucky something
else that became a family byword — a name. The
story was that she went driving with some friends
one afternoon — horse and carriage driving, not au-
tomobile. They stopped at a small country store. A
little colored girl was sitting on the steps and just to
be pleasant Meta spoke to her and asked her name.
The child rattled off something that was completely
incomprehensible. Meta asked again, and again the
flood of sound that could not be understood. Not to
be defeated, she got the child to repeat it over and
over again until she learned it. The name was: In-
diana Hen and Ham, Anna Margy Buckingham,
Cornelia Booker Lizzie Lee, Bessie Fochristor
Gilmore Burr.

I grew up on Indiana Hen and Ham. Meta taught
it to some of the children in the family and we
learned to rattle it off all in one breath, as the origi-
nal little girl had done, taking pleasure in puzzling

President Glass presided at the ceremony on the Golden
Stairs of the induction of seven seniors into the VVacs in
April 1944.

our hearers. Meta and I found some humor in the
fact that years later she came up with another In-
diana, Indiana Fletcher Williams. Meta had a great
feeling for her. During all the years she lived in
Sweet Briar House, "Miss Indie" was a very real
person to her. She always held to the legend that if
you did something to the house that Miss Indie
didn't like she would trip you up on the seventh step
of the front staircase.

Meta was very fond of dogs. Her Irish terrier.
Red, was a campus character at Sweet Briar for
years, and later her little Scottie, Meg. During an
interval when she had no dog of her own, when I
was working at Sweet Briar as director of public
relations, I had a Scottie puppy named Jock. Meta
was devoted to him and he to her. He spent a good
deal of time in her office. During the summer
months, when only the administrative staff was on
duty at the College, the offices in Fletcher were
sometimes hot and Jock felt the heat badly. Meta
had a shelf built out from one of the window sills in
her office so Jock could jump up on the leather-cov-
ered sofa under the window and thence to the en-
larged sill where he could get the benefit of any
breezes that might come in. One hot day, when I
was working in my office with the door to the corri-
dor open in the hope of getting some cross-ventila-
tion, I heard the door of the president's office open
and Meta come along the hall. Just as she passed
my door she stopped and looked back, and I heard
her say: "Now Jock, you just wait. I've got business
to attend to. I'll fan you some more when I come
back."

The most famous personality story about Meta
Glass that came out of her years at Sweet Briar was
the one about her Box 408 correspondence. One
afternoon in 1936, Lois Ballenger, who was then
Miss Glass' secretary, came into my office to show
me an amusing letter which had come in the after-
noon mail, and an even more amusing reply which
Meta had dictated to it. At that time there was a
brief fad for the boys at neighboring men's colleges
which had individual post office box numbers to
write to the corresponding number at girls' colleges.
This letter was addressed to Box 408, Sweet Briar
College. That happened to be the president's box
and the letter was delivered to her office. It read, in
effect: "Dear Box 408: I have been wondering who
the holder of my box number at Sweet Briar is and
what she looks like. I am tall, dark, and I drive a
Ford V8. I am a freshman." It went on to tell of his
college interests and activities and ended by asking

about
"Dear
I once
was a
major
young
Sweet

Sweet Briar's Box 408 to write and tell him
herself. The letter that went out in reply said:
Box 408: I too am tall and not as thin as
was. My hair is white and I drive a Buick. I
freshman in 1896." It went on to tell of her
college interests and ended by inviting the
man to come to see her if he ever visited
Briar. It was signed: "Meta Glass, President."

We thought this was very funny and I went down
the hall with Lois to see if I could persuade the
president to let me give the story to the newspapers.
Meta was sometimes a little difficult about publicity.
She wanted Sweet Briar to be well-publicized and
well-known, but she did not really like publicity and
especially disliked personal publicity and any kind
of ballyhoo. Rather to my surprise, however, she
made no objection in this case, and I sent the story
to the Associated Press that afternoon. The next
morning I got a telegram from the Richmond AP
thanking me for it and urging me to send them more
like it. Of course there were no more like it. It was
one of a kind. It went out on the AP wires and was
picked up by newspapers all over the United States.
I remember one of the headlines that appeared in a
number of papers: JUST FORTY YEARS TOO
LATE.

The office of public relations of course operated
on a budget. We had a certain amount of money
allocated to a clipping service, so that we could have
some check on the amount of newspaper coverage
received by the items about the college and the indi-
vidual students that were sent out. Before we
finished with that story our clipping budget for the
entire year had gone up in smoke. We received
hundreds of clippings at five cents per clipping.

It was when Mrs. Pannell came to Sweet Briar,
many years later, and heard the story, that she had
the perspicacity to send it to the READERS DI-
GEST. It was accepted and published in the maga-
zine, and this time it went around the world, not
just the United States. I wonder what it did to
Martha von Briesen's budget.

When I entered Sweet Briar as a freshman Meta
Glass had just gone back to Randolph-Macon as
assistant professor of Latin. Thirteen years later,
when she was asked to go to Sweet Briar as its pres-
ident, knowing my feeling for the college and its first
president, Mary K. Benedict, she wrote to ask me
how I felt about the proposal. What I felt was pure
joy, both for her and for Sweet Briar, and that is the
way I have felt ever since.

In writing about Meta Glass I have selected these
small incidents from among the many, many memo-
ries of her throughout my entire life that now fill my
mind and heart, not because they are important in
themselves, but because they illustrate a facet of her
character and personality that I think was impor-
tant, that does not always accompany intellectual
brilliance and administrative ability, and that cer-
tainly to me, and I think to many others, was very
endearing.

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a review by a student

by Shelley Gearhart '67

EMPO — the world is catchy, current, camp, and
for three days it was ahve! As March 2 slowly ap-
proached, the air was charged with an excitement
that was infectious. Past anticipation, students were
intensely aware of the present. A "happening" by
definition is present tense, is experienced and cannot
exist in print. Marshall McLuhan, a man who has
kept abreast of contemporary culture, describes a
"happening" as "an artistic event of all-at-onceness
in which there is no story Hne". TEMPO, however,
has a story.

TEMPO is the first student-sponsored symposium
and its story began in the spring of 1966. The last
symposium in 1963, entitled "Religion and the
Arts" was sponsored by the college and again in the
spring of 1966 Sweet Briar had invited eminent
speakers to celebrate the dedication of the Connie
M. Guion Science Building. This past year the ener-
gies of the college have been directed toward the
religious symposium to be held in April of 1967 at
the dedication of the Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel.
Students certainly could not complain of living in a
cultural vacuum.

Yet, in the spring of 1966, the words "happen-
ing" and "camp" began to circulate frequently in
discussions, and it became increasingly clear that
there remained an area in which the students were
vitally interested and wished to explore — the area of
contemporary art and thought in America. Although
it is true that many courses touch upon this area,
students wanted to hear from the artists themselves.
At a spring student government meeting the students
voted to sponsor their own symposium. TEMPO
was conceived amidst a great deal of enthusiasm and
a willingness to shoulder the responsibility involved.
President Pannell granted her permission and TEM-
PO was scheduled for the first weekend in March,
1967.

Throughout the summer, the co-chairmen, Bobo
Covington and Pam Burwell, worked to contract
speakers from the list which the students had pro-
posed. At a late fall student government meeting,
after many phone calls, and letters, they presented a
group of nine men, each outstanding within his own
area of contemporary art.

Without financial aid, TEMPO would not have
been possible. The response to the fund drive was
terrific and reflected the interest and support of par-

ents, alumnae and friends. The students were en-
couraged and excited to know that so many people
were behind them. The largest single contributors
were campus organizations: the 1966 and 1967
Bum Chums pledged $1000; the Lectures Commit-
tee generously donated $2000 and the Student Gov-
ernment Association gave $2000.

With speakers contracted and a substantial budget,
TEMPO was still in the planning stage. There
seemed to be endless details to arrange. The time
and talents of practically every student were ex-
hausted. The interest of the students would ul-
timately determine the success of TEMPO. Copies
of The Centaur and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
almost buried the campus. Professors, sponsored by
Tau Phi, graciously gave of their time to prepare
afternoon lectures on the TEMPO speakers. The
Sweet Briar News carried a series of TEMPO ar-
ticles throughout the month of February. The
Brambler rushed to publish a special TEMPO edi-
tion which doubled as a program. Printed on pink
paper, it included essays about the speakers, ex-
cerpts from their works, pictures and even a plastic
Charlie Byrd recording. The pub-
licity committee plastered TEMPO
posters in every free nook and
cranny. In short, there was no way
to avoid TEMPO; the only possible
responses were enthusiasm and an-
ticipation. The campus buzzed, and
as March 2 approached, the under-
current of excitement became un-
bearably intense. Life magazine was to be here for
three days covering TEMPO. Glamour and Madem-
oiselle wanted the story. Many newspapers carried
articles.

1 hursday afternoon, March 2, anticipation high,
seven girls had their noses pressed to the glass
as passengers descended from the Piedmont flight.
Whispers buzzed through the waiting room — John
Updike, Lionel Wiggam, Edward Field and
Ralph Pomeroy were arriving. The transition was
swift; TEMPO had moved into the present and was
a reality. We spotted Field and Pomeroy, the poets,
first. A pair, they were laughing, casual. Field was
striking, thin, prematurely white with sideburns and
distinctive features; Pomeroy, short and blond, wore

a blue turtle-neck, sunglasses and bell-bottom trous-
ers with his sportscoat slung over his shoulder. They
looked like TEMPO. Behind them walked John
Updike, award-winning novelist, author of Rahhil
Run and The Centaur. Lionel Wiggam was ecstatic
over the fresh, sunny air. a change from New York
City, and for the next three days would slip out
into the sun whenever we gave him a chance.

Mr. Wiggam was our keynote speaker and a
man well-qualified to tie together the trends in con-
temporary art. Lyric poet, playwright, screenwriter
("Smash-Up" Susan Hay ward Academy Award
nominee), actor, model and lecturer, he is "truly a
master of the arts" and a very real person. In his
keynote address he wanted to light a spark on the
Sweet Briar campus which would remain after
TEMPO had gone. He praised students who cared
enough to put TEMPO together and to follow it
through. His polished address was received with
enthusiasm by faculty and students alike.

iNext Mr. Updike gave a reading and discussion
of his works. He had no prepared speech but was
more casual and one got the impression of being in
a small room ha\ing a personal conversation with
John Updike. Relaxed at the podium, kicking one
leg out behind him with a boyish smile, he talked
with feeling about his works, willing to answer what-
ever we wanted to know.

As one speaker followed another, patterns evolved;
there were connections where there were none be-
fore. Friday morning featured Edward Field and
Ralph Pomeroy followed by a panel discussion with
Wiggam. Field and Pomeroy, summarizing trends in
poetry. Much of Mr. Field's poetry dealt with movie
themes ("Frankenstein", "The Life of Joan Craw-
ford") for he feels that movies and the great Holly-
wood stars are the American folklore. Mr. Pomeroy"s
poems tended to be brief, like fleeting impressions,
with amazingly fresh perceptions of love and time.

Between the planned events, the speakers wan-
dered over the campus. Mr. Field autographed books
in the dell. Mr. Pomeroy talked under the arcades.
Jonas Mekas had arrived at 5:45 a.m. at Monroe
Station, carrying his camera in a gunnysack over his
shoulder. When he arrived at Sweet Briar, the mist
had not yet cleared and he jumped out of the car
to film the campus. He was an amazing man with
a heavy Lithuanian accent, hair to his shoulders,
unassumingly dressed. In his smile there was a shy,
almost indescribable friendliness. Girls were crowded
around him outside the refectory. New ideas had
been tossed out to students who grasped them avidly.
The spark had been lit; there was connection.

David Schaber, experimental dramatist with the
Strasberg Theater of Art, had spent a week at Sweet
Briar in the Spring of 1966 directing one act plays
of Tennessee Williams and Anton Chekov, and stu-
dents welcomed him back on Friday afternoon.

l-/ven the best laid plans go awry, and when Ed-
ward Albee could not be here Friday night, Mr.

Mekas offered to show his films. Whatever anyone
else's reaction may be, Mr. Mekas believes absolutely
in the validity of his work as art. Among the films
he showed were segments of Andy Warhol's film of
a man sleeping for eight hours, a spoof on the
underground cinema, and part of his own film "The
Brig." It is not easy to describe these under-
ground films. There were images juxtaposed and
incongruous; everyday objects usually taken for
granted assumed tremendous importance; they
seemed close to music and close to pop art. Mr.
Wiggam commented that students were lucky to be
able to see and judge these films at Sweet Briar
where the serenity of the campus would maintain
perspective.

Speaking Saturday morning, Edward Albee
mourned the plight of the American theater where
Ibsen. Chekov, Miller and Shaw are relegated to
off-Broadway, while light entertainment floods
Broadway. Mr. Albee is a man in the main stream
of contemporary American drama. His plays. Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Tiny
Alice, have stirred up the wild new currents of avant-
garde productions. Persuasive and interested, he con-
nected with the students. He was more than we
really had hoped for in a man known for his un-
predictable temperament and seclusion.

Art Buchwald, syndicated columnist noted for
his political satire, was witty and quick. He put
across some good jokes at the ex-
pense of U.Va. boys. Asked what
he would write in a column on
'f Sweet Briar, he deftly sidestepped
^ •^-'V '^^ question, saying that he thought
^B^^^/^ his thirteen-year-old son Joel who
^^^^ ^1 was with him could do the assign-
^B iSk ^1 ment greater justice.
^^^«^ ^B Charlie Byrd's concert brought
TEMPO to a close Saturday night. He is a maestro
who can make the guitar sing a thousand languages.
The auditorium was packed. The response to
TEMPO had been fantastic. Events scheduled for
the Emily Bowen Room had to be moved to Bab-
cock Auditorium.

It was with a great deal of pride that students
witnessed the success of TEMPO. Perhaps one of
the most valuable rewards was the knowledge of
what the student body could achieve when they
worked together toward a common goal. Of course
there were rough spots, unforeseen problems, most
of which were handled smoothly. It was expensive,
but we feel it was worth it, and in the future we will
profit by the example of the first student symposium
and learn from the criticisms. If every person was
not completely satisfied with every speaker, at least
few were apathetic. Whether to shock, disturb or
inspire, TEMPO struck deeply enough to get a reac-
tion that impressed even the speakers, many of
whom are still writing students, still discussing con-
troversial issues in the area of contemporary art and
thought. Although the "happening" is ended, the
spark it ignited is still burning brightly.

1B^K>

a review by an alumna

by Nancy St. Clair Talley '56

.T was going on the first weekend in March. The
crocuses were in bloom, coats could be left in closets
— a fine, sunny time for early spring fever. But
at Sweet Briar College, the air was electric with ex-
citement and anticipation. You could feel it wher-
ever a group of students gathered, by the heightened
tone of the general din in the refectories, by the
jauntiness in those hurrying to classes, by such over-
heard conversations, as, "Isn't it exciting?" — "Yes,
you can just feel it. It's the utmost in coolity."

It was Tempo, a symposium in contemporary art
and thought in America (ConTEMPOary; get it?)
conceived and executed by the students themselves,
a three-day (Thursday, March 2, through Saturday,
March 4) feast of learning and thinking and study-
ing about the artistic processes. It was a feast to
which the bidden guests came in hoards. Those pan-
el discussions originally scheduled for the Emily Bo-
wen Room or for the small auditorium in Guion
were changed to the large auditorium in Babcock,
where students not in place well ahead of the time
for lecture or discussion might well be turned away
or forced to stand outside straining to see and hear.

Those wisely on time heard Edward Albee discuss
"the playwright's responsibility to be a national con-
science," and John Updike read from his works, us-
ing his hands as if he were composing for the au-
dience. They heard Art Buchwald regale an
audience with an ease of wit that is its definition.
They learned from Edward Field, Ralph Pomeroy,
and Lionel Wiggam different views of poetry, both
in theory and in practice. They listened to David
Schaber's thoroughly thoughtful criticism of today's
theatre, both different and closely kin to that of Mr.
Albee. They watched Jonas Mekas's films of The
Underground, which some of them found fascinating
and some, horrid, and they heard Mr. Mekas tell the
why and wherefore of his technique, in a heavy ac-
cent. They paid Charlie Byrd the high compliment
of filling Babcock Auditorium to capacity on a Sat-
urday night to listen raptly to his magic with the
guitar.

The three poets presented contrasts in personality
and in artistic expression. They were not contempo-
raries of the students — Ralph Pomeroy and Edward
Field were born in the mid-twenties; Lionel Wig-
gam, some ten years earlier. Lionel Wiggam has
published a recent book of verse. Land of Unloving
(1962), which includes poems from an earlier vol-

ume. Landscape with Figures (1936). Ralph Pom-
eroy's verses have appeared in leading periodicals,
as have Edward Field's, and Mr. Field has in addi-
tion published Stand Up, Friend, with Me (1963), a
volume which won the Lamont Poetry Prize in
1962.

Lionel Wiggam gave the opening address of the
symposium. He discussed education, including his
own. After flunking out of two universities, he was
graduated cum laiide from Princeton — and called
today's underclassmen curiously noncommittal. He
spoke of current poetry, which seems, he said, to
have gone underground, and of certain novelists
who may be achieving more of an art than the
poets. He fascinated students with tales of his days
in Hollywood, where he and his office neighbor,
William Faulkner wrote dialogue in free verse or
blank verse for unsuspecting producers, and of his
early writing, when he received five or six times as
much money for a story he named "Thick Ankles" in
a periodical called "Greasy Stories" than he received
for a poem in Atlantic Monthly. He spoke, too, of
art. The purpose of Tempo, he said, was to urge
individual expression. "Art does not come quick-fro-
zen, but is the hot product of the artist," he said.
"The coolest art is never cool in its origin. Without
a spark it would never be at all."

/\ll artists strive to objectify subjective reality.
What they have in common is this hope of abstract-
ing emotional form from incoherent life."

Edward Field and Ralph Pomeroy read from
their poems, poems divergent in form and in intent.
Mr. Field's preference is for narrative poetry, and
most of the poems he read were from Variety of
Photoplays, a collection of poems about early Holly-
wood, brought out this spring by Grove Press. The
poems are colloquial, and treat the movies as myth.
He read those about "A Song to Remember," "She,"
"The Bride of Frankenstein," "White Jungle
Queen," and "Whatever Happened to Mary Cas-
par?"

Mr. Pomeroy's poetry, on the other hand, is lyri-
cal and impressionistic. He read them in a modest,
unassuming manner that made him appear younger
than he is. He interrupted the reading for a question
period, during which he established an immediate
rapport with the students. He writes a poem, he
said, because of "a funny sense of well-being that

makes me feel as if I have to do something about
it." The role of the poet in society today, he an-
swered without a trace of condescension, is "to tell
the truth — any truth. An artist does not have to
concern himself with being modern. He only has to
concern himself with the truth."

Ralph Pomeroy is also a painter, the only one at
the symposium. It was Tempo's loss that his works
were not exhibited while he was at Sweet Briar. He
spoke of his aim in painting, "to reduce the number
of images, sometimes to no image at all," and de-
scribed his dual role as poet and painter in his way:
"Painting keeps me from wanting to write descrip-
tive poetry. I write what I can't paint and paint
what I can't write."

As the only novelist represented at Tempo, and
as one of the artists with the most established repu-
tation. John Updike had a responsibility which he
fulfilled entirely. He read from selections of his
works, talked freely of his writing and how it is ac-
complished, and answered questions with gracious
concern. Before his lecture, he said, "1 don't write at
all as I talk. I talk very simply, and what I write is
all tongue twisted, complicated. When I read what I
write, I become tongue twisted."

Yet when he read "Eclipse," a description, and
"My Lover Has Dirty Fingernails," a short story,
the writing seemed more alive because the writer
was there, just as the poems by Field and Pomeroy
had seemed. "Your writing is not quite your voice,"
John Updike said to his audience. "You want to cry.

no, that's not the way it is at all. But prose has an
audio existence. Those who write for the eye alone
are kidding themselves."

Mr. Updike's own writing began with poems, pro-
gressed to short stories, which were published by the
New Yorker, and then to the novel, the first begun
while he was a member of the staff of the New
Yorker. "Every novel appears very perilous to me,"
he said. "I've lost as many as I've brought into the
world. You begin with a kind of shiver, when you're
suddenly confronted by something big enough to
tell. I try not to begin until I have a pretty good idea
of the end. The middle I leave to faith. The char-
acters will take care of themselves, the themes will
intertwine.

"My advice to any writer is to enjoy doing it,
because it is the only sure pleasure."

The drama was represented by three men: David
Schaber, writer of stories and plays, Broadway pro-
ducer, college teacher; Edward Albee, brilliantly
successful playwright; Jonas Mekas, a key figure in
the New Cinema. David Schaber gave a cohesive
lecture, and was a popular speaker — the students re-
membered him with affection and respect from two
former trips to the College, one to criticize student
experimental plays and a second to spend a week
directing student productions. He said of the present
state of the theatre that there is not enough excel-
lence in it. "How long has it been since something
you saw on the stage really moved you," he asked,
"since something you saw on the stage changed your
life? Because that is our goal . . . Nowhere can we
see a play about people who are concerned about
the responsibility of life. Such people cannot go to a
play and see themselves held up to life . . . The best
theatre is didactic, not thematic, or message-y."

Edward Albee does not subscribe to this view of
the theatre, and it was unfortunate that Mr. Schaber
had to leave before Mr. Albee arrived. "It is the
responsibility of the playwright to show his audience
what it is like and how to change," he said. "In the
Great Society, the writer finds himself continually at
odds with his environment."

Mr. Albee discussed the public obligation to con-
cern itself with the theatre, and the obligation of the
playwright to be a national conscience. He discussed
controls on the theatre: in this country, he said, the
theatre is controlled from the bottom, as opposed to
state control from the top; the proletariat wants to

maintain the status quo, here, and believes the artist
his servant rather than his conscience.

JVlr. Albee got down to brass tacks when he out-
lined the environment of the theatre today, for he is
in the thick of it with a perceptive, analytical mind.
Speaking of the Broadway theatre, he said that the
chief aesthetician is the real estate owner, followed
by the lady executive of theatre parties, the stars
(not the actors), the director, the producer, and,
last of all, the playwright. Dictators in the theatre,
he said, are the critics and the audience. The real
problem in today's theatre is the latter. "You can
have any kind of theatre you want, and you will
probably have whatever kind of theatre you de-
serve," Albee said. "If the audience weren't content
with mediocre theatre, there would be good theatre.
I would submit that the audience has a responsibility
to the playwright, a tremendous unpopular view."

This responsibility he outlined thus: to be alert
(sober and awake), to be informed, to be intelli-
gent, and to be open-minded, willing to accept any
theatre as long as it is done reasonably well. "The
audience that will not exert itself will not have the
best," Mr. Albee said.

And although Edward Albee deplores the didac-
tic theatre for which David Schaber calls, both agree
about the lack of responsibility in today's theatre
and today's audience. They may have agreed on
much else, although Edward Albee's plays are not
what David Schaber wants. During the question pe-
riod after Mr. Albee's talk, when Mr. Albee re-
sponded with great consideration and thoughtful-
ness, it became apparent that the students longed for
a confrontation between the two men.

Jonas Mekas's stage, the cinema, is a theatre of a
different breed, not only from that of Mr. Albee and
Mr. Schaber, but also from that of the conventional
cinema. Jonas Mekas and David Schaber did meet
at a panel discussion, after Mr. Schaber's lecture
and before the showing of Mr. Mekas's films, but
their ideas seemed to be on different wave lengths,
and the discussion was not fruitful. Jonas Mekas
outlined the background of the underground film,
which was born when new men could not afford to
make films in Hollywood and so began their own,
from scratch. The technique grew like a child, Mr.
Mekas said, with no tradition and many mistakes.
Unlike the French, who have a tradition of estab-
lished artistic cinema, the American art cinema is
basically a means of self-expression. "Light is the
basis of the film," Mekas said. "It is the beginning,
and if we go to the beginning, to light, because God
is light, we can perhaps find the basis of ourselves."

The content of Jonas Mekas's films may not be
what the run-of-the-mill self considers its basis. In
one, Andy Warhol eats a hard-boiled egg intermina-
bly — and it was rumored that the film was cut short.
In another, cartoon and action jumble in a Key-
stone-Kops-type fire. In still another, the camera fo-
cuses on a stomach, from the film's beginning to its
end. Audience reaction to these films, and the

others, was enthusiastic, or scornful, or shocked, but
certainly not blase or bored.

"Basically I deal in a very serious commodity, hu-
mor," Art Buchwald told the Sweet Briar audience
in Tempo's next-to-last offering. With his serious
commodity, he kept a packed house in laughter for
almost an hour, yet he discussed the serious rela-
tionship of humor to hostility, and gave, in the ques-
tion period, a happy picture of a man who does not
take himself too seriously.

Charlie Byrd, too, is a man who enjoys his work.
A foremost guitarist, he plays both classical and jazz
styles, and he gave the Sweet Briar audience a sam-
ple of both. Mr. Byrd introduced the bosa nova to
Americans after a trip to Brazil, but he also studied
under the maestro Segovia and is well-versed in the
traditional music of his instrument.

An event like Tempo is more than the sum of its
parts. The impact of the symposium was the serious-
ness of the artist, and his quality of every-day-ness.
To hear a poet, a novelist, a playwright, tell how he
works and what he aims for, is to make the work
seem more accessible and at the same time more
remarkable. For the student body, to have a group
of men so concerned with what the students
thought, what they cared for, what they wanted to
know, was a moving experience. These two facets
were perhaps the greatest impression of Tempo, and
they applied to the charming Mr. Updike and to the
somewhat dourly serious Mr. Albee, who have be-
come well-known, as well as to the lesser known
poets and to the popular humorist. The importance
of the intellect, the reality of the life of the mind, is
what education is about. An event hke Tempo
makes this importance and this reality tangible.

^^riar j""^ cttcheS

inaugurations

Adelaide Bozc Glascock '40 — Inauguration of Carl Gustaf
Fjellman as President of Upsala College in East Orange,
New Jersey, October 4, 1966.

Arnold Siisont; Jones '36 — Inauguration of The Reverend
Douglas G. Trout as President of Tusculum College in
Greeneville, Tennessee, October 4, 1966.
Clara MocRac Causey '40 — Inauguration of Albert Ed-
ward Holland as President of Hobart and William Smith
Colleges in Geneva, New York, October 8, 1966.
Isabel Ware Hall '60 — Inauguration of Ray Lorenzo Heflfner
as President of Brown University in Providence, R.I.,
October 15, 1966.

Ethel Ogden Burwell '58 — Inauguration of The Very
Reverend Malcolm Carron as President of the University
of Detroit in Detroit, Mich., October 20, 1966.
Allen Bagby Macneil "41 — Seventy-fifth Anniversary Con-
vocation of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,
Calif., October 24-27, 1966.

Nella Gray Barkley "55 — Inauguration of Walter Coppedge
as President of The College of Charleston in Charleston,
S.C, October 29, 1966.

Florence Bagley Witt '42 — Inauguration of William Master-
son as President of the University of Chattanooga in Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., November 4, 1966.

Elaine Schuster '58— Inauguration of Grady Coulter Cothen
as President of Oklahoma Baptist University in Oklahoma
City, Okla., November 5. 1966.

Betty Doucctt Neill '41 — Inauguration of Elizabeth J. Mc-
Cormack, R.S.C.J. as President of Manhattanville College
of The Sacred Heart in Purchase, N.Y., December 9, 1966.
Beverley Hill Furniss '35 — Inauguration of James Huey
Edmondson as President of Judson College in Marion, Ala-
bama, January 14, 1967.

Karen Gill Meyer '63 — Inauguration of Arthur L. Peter-
son as President of The American Institute For Foreign
Trade in Phoenix, Arizona, March 2, 1967.
Ann Colston Leonard '47 — Presentation of the first Trinity
Award to Barbara Ward at Trinity College, Washington,
p.C, March 6, 1967.

Dorothy Nicholxon Tate '38 — Centennial Convocation at
Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., April 7,
1967.

Anne Schutte Nolt ' 1 5 — Centennial Convocation at Lebanon

Valley College in Annville, Penna., April 8, 1967.

Preston Hodges Hill "49 — Academic Festival at Colorado

Woman's College in Denver, Colo., April 14, 1967.

Mary Virginia Camp Smith '36 — Inauguration of E. Bruce

Heilman as President of Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C.,

April 15, 1967.

Mary Ellen Dohs Acey '60 — Inauguration of Dr. Rolf
Alfred Weil as President of Roosevelt University in Chicago,
III., April 16,, 1967.

Kay Prothro Yeager '61 — Inauguration of Leonard L. Hol-
loway as President of Mary Hardin-Baylor College in
Belton, Texas, April 25, 1967.

Lisa Giiigon Shinberger '29 — Special Convocation honoring
President Jesse Earl Moreland of Randolph-Macon College
in Ashland, Va., April 29, 1967.

Elizabeth Williams Allison '37 — Inauguration of Dr. Joseph .

Wightman as President of Erskine College in Due West, J
S.C, April 29, 1967.

Betty Siiltle Briscoe '34 — Inauguration of Peter Andrew

Herbut as President of The Jefferson Medical College of ,]

Philadelphia, Penna., May 3, 1967. i
Helen Ellioil Sockwell '48 — Inauguration of Frank Newton

Philpot as President of Athens College in Athens, Alabama, j

May 6, 1967. :

Francisca Brackenridge '61 — Inauguration of John Alden \

Greenlee as President of California State College in Los ~

Angeles, Calif., May 8, 1967. ;

Ginger Newman Blanchard '60 — Centennial Convocation at I

Centenary College for Women in Hackettstown, N.J., May J

13. 1967. ;

executive
board

Sweet Briar Alumnae Association

Officers

President: Blair BiitUins Both "40
First Vice-President: Ann Colston Leonard '47
Second Vice-President: Joan DeVore Roth '41
Secretary: Leila Van Leer Schwaab '33
Executive Secretary: Elizabeth Bond Wood '34
Chairman of the Alumnae Fund: Caria deCreny Levin '51
Nominating Chairman: Nancy Pesek Rasenberger '51
Bulb Chairman: Katherine Guerrant Fields '53
Bequest Chairman: Elizabeth Campbell Gawthrop '39
Alumnae Representative Chairman: Peachey Lillard Man-
ning '50

Regional Chairmen and Members-at-Large
Catharine Fitzgerald Booker '47
Jo jW el son Booze '54
Anne McJimkin Briber '43
Marion Bower Harrison '48
Wistar Watts King '46
Allen Bagby Macneil '41
Anne Mercer '66
Martha Jean BrooAi Miller '41
Jane Goolrick Murrell '40
Mary Elizabeth Doucett Neill '41
Muriel Fossum Pesek '25
Mary Lib Vick Thornhill "47
Florence Bagley Wilt '42

Member of Board of Directors: Gladys Wester Horton '30
Alumnae Members of Board of Overseers:
Elizabeth Prescoti Balch "28
Emma Ricty Lemaire '30
Ellen Lee Siiodgrass Park '37
Nida Tomlin Watts '40

alumnae
daughters

Freshman Class of 1970

Elizabeth Brewer
Grace Lanier Brewer '42

Elizabeth Edwards
Augusta Saul Edwards '39

Frances Gravely
Lee Stevens Gravely '46

Helen Camblos
Ruth Hensley Camblos '42

Mary Clemens
Marjorie Stock Clemens '40

Susan Davenport
Susan Gihson Davenport '38

Frances Dornette
Frances Hester Dornette '44

Loring Harris
Jane Hardy Harris '43

Connie Haskell
Sarah Gracey Haskell '32

Baird Hunlei
Byrd Smith Hunter '43

Margaret Lewis
Margaret Robinson Lewis '40

Mildred Littleton
Elinor Clement Littleton '46

Katharine Potterfield
Ann Haiislein Potterfield '42

Sarah Macfarlane
Sarah Leffen Macfarlane '45

Mary Scales
Roselle Faulconer Scales '43

Genevieve Minor
Genevieve Ray Minor '47

Sally Taylor
Ann Adamson Passano '40

Anne Muller-Thym
Grace Bugg Muller-Thym '42

Helen Watts
Nida Tomlin Watts '40

Wilma Packard
Edna Schomaker Packard '41

Michelle Perry
Nellie Tolin Perry '40

Wallis Wickham
Margaret Gearing Wickham '42

class notes

Class notes had to be omitted in this issue due
to the special feature on ^liss Meta Glass. The
notes for the classes ending in "2" wliich have
reunions this year have been sent from the Alum-
nae Office to all members of these classes. All
other cla.^s notes will be held for the summer issue
of the Magazine.

the alumnae
fund 1966-67

Contributions to the Alumnae Fund by May 1 total
$166,911.64 from 1718 alumnae.

Carla de Crcny Levin, Chairman of the Alumnae Fund,
reminds all alumnae that the fund year is rapidly drawing
to a close. Please send your gift before June 15. Many
alumnae are designating their gifts to the Meta Glass En-
dowment Fund for faculty salaries in memory of President
Emeritus Meta Glass who died March 20.

the golden stairs

Alumnae who are charter members of the Golden Stairs
are:

Mary Herd Moore

Spec.

Eugenia Griffin Burnett

'10

Eugenia Btiffington Walcott

•13

Marian Yerkes Barlow

'14

Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck

'18

Caroline Sliarpe Sanders

'19

Rhoda Allen Worden

'21

Mr. Donald Royce (in memory of wife,

Laura Roberts Royce

'22)

Gladys Woodward Hubbard

'24

Ellen Newell Bryan

'26

Camilla Alsop Hyde

•27

Dorothy Boyle Charles

•31

Anonymous

'31

Margaret Guppy Dickie

'33

Peggy Carry Durland

•35

Jacquelyn Strickland Dwelle

•35

Anonymous

•36

Esther O'Brian Robinson

'37

Barbara Munn Green

'37

Elizabeth Campbell Gawthrop

'39

Eleanor Claflin Williarns

•39

Gertrude Robertson Midlen

'39

Nida Tomlin Watts

'40

Marie Gaffney Barry

'41

Nancy Pingree Drake

'43

Evelyn Dillard Grones

~ '45

Ariana Jones Wittke

'46

Eleanor Bosworth Shannon

•47

Eleanor Criimrine Stewart

'47

Jean Old

•47

Meredith Slane Finch

•47

Alberta Pew Baker

•49

Cornelia Wattley

•48

Anonymous

•51

Sally Fishburn Fulton

•52

Camille Williams Taylor

•55

Rose Montgomery Johnston

'56

Lynn Crosby Gammill

•58

Sally Dobson Danforth

'59

Ann Ritchey Baruch

'62

This new group on the stairs are the alumnae who have
given $250 to $999 to Sweet Briar this year. Won't you
join them and help fill the Golden Stairs to overflowing'

the boxwood circle

Members of the Circle for 1966-67 include:

Alberta Hensel Pew
Virginia Lazenby O'Hara
Margaret Potts Williams
Frances Murrell Rickards
Anne Gary Panell (Honorary)
Connie Guion (Honorary)
Eva Horner Butterworth
Caroline Freiburg Marcus
Florence Woelfel Elston
Yelena Grgitsch Prosch
Muriel Fossum Pesek
Katherine Blount Anderson
Dorothy Hamilton Davis
Anonymous
Cornelia Wailes Wailes
Elise Morley Fink
Anonymous

Eleanor Branch Cornell
Elizabeth Prescott Balch

Acad.

Acad.
'10
'10
'13
'13
'20
'21
'23
'25
'26
'26
'26
'26
•27
'27
'28
'28

Gladys Wester Horton

Anonymous

Margaret Austin Johnson

Mary Whipple Clark

Mary Virginia Camp Smith

Margaret Huxley Dick

Rebecca Douglass Mapp

Betty Smartt Johnson

Sarah Belk Gambrell

Hazel Sterrett Allen

Louise Kirk Edwards

Sarah Adams Bush

Alice Eubank Burke

Ann Samford Upchurch

Anonymous

Katharine Babcock Mountcastle

Jane Roseberry Ewald

Jean Gillespie Walker

Lee Cullum Clark

Kay Prothro Yeager

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Gladys Wester Horton hopes that before the final report
is in that the number of members will surpass last years
grand total of fifty-one members.

nominee for Board
of Overseers

The Executive Board of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Asso-
ciation submits the name of Juliet Halliburton Burnett '35,
to .the members of the Association as a candidate for elec-
tion to the Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar College.
Names of other candidates may be added to the baljot in
accordance with the by-laws of the Alumnae Association.

Mrs. Burnett's qualifications for membership on the Board
of Overseers have been demonstrated through her active
participation in alumnae affairs and her leadership in com-
munity organizations. "JudyV" services to Sweet Briar in-
clude serving on the Executive Board of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation from 1958-62. Chairman of Region IV, 1958-60;
first vice-president of the Alumnae Association, 1960-62 and
president of the Alumnae Association and ex-officio member
of the Board of Overseers from 1962-64. She has been a
class agent and was the area chairman for the Development
Program in 1954.

Her community activities are so numerous that space per-
mits the listing of only a few. The organizations for which
she has served as president include the Wednesday Lecture
Club, the Debutante Club, and the Assembly. She has also
been chairman of the Guilford County Committee National
Society of Colonial Dames, Heads of the Chapters, Holy
Trinity Church Auxiliary. Some of her Junior League
offices have been magazine chairman, vice-president, presi-
dent, admissions and sustaining chairman and chairman of
the Regional Nominating Committee. She is presently vice-
president of the Greensboro Symphony Guild.

Mr. Burnett, who is also a leader in the religious, business,
civic and cultural life of Greensboro, is the president of the
Bessemer Improvement Company, the Summit Shopping
Center, and the Piedmont Corporation, which are companies
involved in industrial and commercial real estate develop-
ment.

Their two children are both married. Miranda, Converse
'61, has two children whom their grandmother admits are
very special. Timothy Brooks, their son, was a Morehead
Scholar at Chapel Hill and a J. Spencer Love Fellow at
Harvard Business School.

the arts at home

arabesques and attitudes

Ann Mathews '69, daughter of Frances Faulkner Mathews '38, is a most accomplished student of the dance.

they dance

ITHIN the last fifty years a revolution has
taken place in the field of dance. Quietly and not
so quietly, a form of theatrical art developed by an
aristocracy and largely suited to the tastes of a very
small group of people, has expanded to include
areas and audiences of great range. Nureyev has
become a teen-age idol and, all over this country
and Europe, Martha Graham is performing for ca-
pacity audiences. Foundation grants are being given
to establish schools, to assist choreographers and to
aid research studies in areas such as history, kines-
thetics, and dance in education. With this burst of
energy has come confusion. What is "modern"
dance? Is it Martha Graham or contemporary ballet,
or is it the people working in choreography with
the aid of computers, mathematical analysis and
"chance" happenings? The answer is that it is all
these things and more. It is no longer confined to
the theater. Dancers are working in the Peace Corps,
in Har-You, and are participating in worship serv-
ices of various denominations. In great numbers,
they are working on the college campus.

Sweet Briar students have been privileged in being
involved in the growth of dance both as spectators
and as participants. Many dance companies have ap-
peared on the campus, such as Martha Graham,
Jose Limon, and Merce Cunningham. But it is not
only in terms of visiting dance companies that dance
has manifested itself at Sweet Briar. Under the
direction of Betty Sue Moehlenkamp, the dance pro-
gram of the college has expanded to include classes
in the history of dance and in choreography, leading
to an academic minor. Through these courses a
student is able to go beyond simply learning a physi-
cal skill and to work as a creative artist and per-
former. The effects of the program and of associa-
tions which the student is able to make with visiting
artists, with other nearby colleges, and with various
departments within Sweet Briar itself, are all evident
in the excellence of the annual concert. A major
strength of these concerts is Mrs. Moehlenkamp's
distinctive talent as a choreographer. To be given a
chance to dance in her works provides a challenge,
both as a technician and as a performer, that a stu-
dent finds invaluable as a means of growth.

My own sense of pride in dance at Sweet Briar
is partly one of personal experience. It is gratitude
for a scholarship for summer study and for the op-

portunity to meet professional dancers who en-
couraged and broadened my knowledge of dance.
It is also a recognition of the fact that to graduate
from a liberal arts college and to be invited almost
immediately into the advanced class of a professional
studio speaks less for an individual capacity than
for training which was in every way excellent.

There is a deeper sense, however, to my interest
in dance at Sweet Briar which stems from a deeply
rooted belief that dance, with the other arts, serves
a valuable purpose in a liberal arts college. Verbal
or conceptual knowledge is only one form of learn-
ing. To perform or create a dance is to discover
new depths of awareness of one's own capacities.

Artists and scholars have benefitted from a mutual
exchange of ideas and talents. Dancers have found
the resources of a college community invaluable in
working toward a kind of total theater. A dancer
is no longer required simply to be a performer, but
also to be a set designer, seamstress, choreographer
with a knowledge of music, and an effective spokes-
man on aesthetic principles. She may refer to the
literature department for source material for a dance
or to the physics department for information on
special effects with light and sound. Most often, it
is the related art fields, such as drama and music,
which utilize the talents of the dancer, but there are
other collaborations which are more unusual. City
planners are using the Laban system for recording
movement. Dancers and psychologists are working
together in dance psycho-therapy. In the field of
education, dance specialists are working with the
blind and the deaf.

The possibilities of this exchange are unlimited
and exciting to dancers in all parts of the country.
They believe in a form of dance which has a personal
relevance and significance. As the tremendous growth
in the number of civic ballet companies shows, many
advances are being made in community situations.
But the majority of these people are working in
colleges, such as Sweet Briar, where their enthusias-
tic vision has helped to establish a training ground
not only for future performers, but also for able
critics and an educated audience, essential for any
society in which the arts may flourish. Fifty years
ago, Isadora Duncan looked toward the future and
said. "I see America dancing." Even now, it would
seem evident that her prophecy is being fulfilled.

allegro con spirito

A Student practices on the Holtcamp three manual, thirty-four rank organ, in the Memorial Chapel.

they make music

.USIC is much a part of living at Sweet Briar
College. The community enjoys concerts and recitals
by the College Choir, by members of the faculty,
and by students. As many as a hundred students a
year take the elementary course in the music de-
partment. Music in History (Music 21-22), which is
the basic history course in the Department and
which also fulfills the distribution requirement in the
arts. Therefore the four or five music majors in each
class, and the fifteen or so minors, are not at all the
limit of the influence of the Department upon the
life at Sweet Briar.

A survey of the Music Department would include
a look at the curriculum of music, and at the extra-
curricular activities of the Department. The curricu-
lum has changed during the past decade, so that all
courses offered beyond the basic Music 1-2 and Mu-
sic 21-22 (there are twelve of them) are new in
content or in organization. There has been a general
expansion of the material studied, and a heavier en-
rollment (as many as twenty-four, with twelve quite
usual) in the courses on the upper levels. A number
of the courses are one-semester, two-hour courses.
Music history, according to Associate Professor
John Shannon, lends itself to this division. It makes
electives easy for non-majors, and it helps to sched-
ule theory courses with courses in applied music,
which may not be given for credit without a concur-
rent course in music theory or history.

A student who elects to major in music must have
completed the basic courses in music history and in
music theory and a year of applied music at the
credit level. She chooses one of two fields of empha-
sis. If the field is music history, she elects courses in
history beyond the basic requirements for the ma-
jors. If the field is theory, she takes extra hours in
applied music and her comprehensive examination
must include a recital. Some majors have fulfilled
requirements for both fields, according to Professor
G. Noble Gilpin, Chairman of the Department, and
have taken the examination in the history of music
as well as the theory examination and the perform-
ance. In addition, many students give a junior recit-
al. The majority of music majors present at least
one recital. And occasionally a non-major student
gives a recital.

Applied music, which carries an extra fee, is
usually piano, organ or voice. There are more piano
teachers, and therefore more piano students, but one

year there were twelve organ students, a huge load
for Mr. Shannon. Associate Professor Iren Marik,
who teaches only one academic course in the De-
partment, routinely has as many as twelve piano stu-
dents; Professor Lucile Umbreit. six to seven, and
Mr. Gilpin a comparable number of voice students.
Mr. Noel Magee, an Instructor, teaches piano also.
This year there are two violin students.

Extra-curricular music activity centers in the
Sweet Briar Choir, a volunteer organization which
offers no credit for membership. The choir provides
music for the Sunday services twenty-four times a
year, quite a commitment for a member, in addition
to singing for various campus ceremonies, such as
Founders Day, and giving three or four concerts a
year. The choir numbers around sixty-five members.

The duties of the Head of Choir are to take care
of the music at the Sunday services, to check attend-
ance, and to supervise the membership of the choir
on the student level. One Head of Choir, Allie Stem-
mons, '63, became so interested in the choir that she
communicated this interest to her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Stemmons of Dallas, who donated the
robes the choir uses now. The present Head of
Choir is Leslie Huber.

The Choir has given joint concerts with all the
nearby universities, and with such colleges and uni-
versities as Colgate, Pittsburgh. Hamilton, Brown,
Lehigh, Haverford, Davidson and Princeton. The
concert presented jointly with Georgetown Univer-
sity this spring, on Sunday. April 16, in Holy Trinity
Church, Georgetown, was recorded for use by the
Voice of America.

During that concert, the Sweet Briar Choir pre-
sented alone Poulet's Litanies de la Vierge Noir. a
somewhat difficult contemporary work. Just as th*"
choir was taking its pitch, a baby in the audience
cried, and the choir raised the pitch a halftone. Ac-
cording to Mr. Gilpin, just a little bit of flatting
would have corrected the pitch, but the choir held
the pitch perfectly until the organ had played alone
long enough to change them. The man in charge of
recording apologized that he would have to delete
the work from the VOA program — on account of the
baby, for the choir's mistake had not been apparent.
"I thought the Poulet was beautiful," one of the
many alumnae who were present confided to Mr.
Gilpin after the program, "but I did think the end
was better than the beginning."

Dr. Noble Gilpin, professor of music, gives a voice lesson to Judy Horton '69, from Houston, Texas.

1 he Sweet Tones, an informal, student-led singing
group, has a repertoire of English madrigals, folk
songs and popular songs, and is usually headed by a
music major. This year, a group of freshmen within
the choir have formed the Thirteenth Floor, a group
that sings popular songs. The Sweet Tones, estab-
lished in 1953 under the direction of Mary Ann
Bowns Bell, '54, performs at social and official (i.e.,
meetings of the Board of Overseers and of the
Alumnae Association) gatherings at the college,
and, upon invitation, before groups ofT-campus.

Off and on, there has been a good ensemble at
Sweet Briar. The last one was active during the aca-
demic year 1957-58. It numbered fifteen students,
and included violins, violas, cellos, and flutes. Occa-
sionally performers from Lynchburg would join the
ensemble. A student is working at present on the
organization of an ensemble for the academic year
1967-1968.

In addition to student music, the faculty contrib-
ute to the music enjoyed at the College. There were,
for example, two faculty recitals this year, by John
Shannon and by Iren Marik. They gave perform-
ances off-campus as well as at the College.

Although the Music Department at Sweet Briar
does not give the intensified training available at a
conservatory of music, its students often go on to
further study and to professional accomplishment.
Of music majors in the Class of 1967, Beth Gawth-
rop plans to attend the New England Conservatory
of Music; Leslie Huber will go on to that conserva-
tory or to the University of Tennesse graduate
school; Sally Twedell, the recipient of a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship, will study music and musicology

at the University of Virginia graduate school, and
Marion MacRae will attend drama school in New
York. Of last year's majors. Penny Winfree is at
Feabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Nancy
Bullard is a tutor at Parsons College in Kansas, and
Wick Nalle is working toward the master's degree
in education at San Jose State College in San
Francisco.

Music facilities at Sweet Briar are excellent. In
Babcock, each faculty member has a studio where
he practices and gives lessons. There are ten prac-
tice pianos in Babcock, two practice organs, and
ample classroom space. The music library, outstand-
ing for a college of Sweet Briar's size, contains some
five thousand scores, nine hundred recordings, and
four thousand books. Included in these this reckon-
ing is the Onegin Collection, the gift of Peter Pen-
zoldt. Professor of French and Comparative Litera-
ture, whose mother was the world-renowned
mezzo-soprano Sigrid Onegin.

The new Memorial Chapel, too, contains excel-
lent music facilities. The choir performs in a loft at
the west end of the building, a space that seats up
to seventy. The choir rehearsal room, in the Chapel
basement, seats seventy-five and houses the choir li-
brary. The magnificent organ is a twenty-seven stop,
thirty-four rank, three-manual instrument.

At no time is the work of the Music Department
more a part of the campus than at a ceremony like
the dedication of the Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel.
At such a time music becomes so much a part of the
rejoicing and the spirit of the College, that it is diffi-
cult to remember that the music is the result of work
and discipline and not only a free outpouring of talent.

they design

X IVE courses are offered at Sweet Briar College
in the practice of art, compared with twelve courses
in the History of Art. A student may major in art
with only one course in the practice of art; she may
not major in the practice of art, although she may
minor in it. Such a black-and-white, statistical ap-
proach to the practice of art at Sweet Briar is fac-
tual, but it does not show the richness available to
the student who wishes to study painting and sculp-
ture as well as learn their history.

"These students are getting in a year's studio,
which is three hours' studio and an hour lecture, the
equivalent of a year in art school, as far as informa-
tion is concerned," said Associate Professor Loren

Oliver, whose domain is the studio. "The informa-
tion is distilled; the projects are smaller. But the
students are getting something else. Through the lib-
eral arts course they are gaining a rich background.
Those who go on have something to work with,
something to develop. I have seen too many talented
young people bog down because they found the
technical work easy but had nothing within them-
selves."

Loren Oliver's approach to the practice of art is
highly analytical. He has no patience with the "tal-
ented," the merely proficient student who can
produce work that looks technically acceptable. His
students learn not just how a picture or a piece of

sculpture should be executed, but why a good work
is good. If they are successful in an attempted paint-
ing, they know, after a class with Mr. Oliver, why
they have been successful. If they respond to the
excellent, they know, after a year of Art 1-2 or Art
115, 116, what caused the response. Loren Oliver's
students may produce the work of individuals, but
they are never slipshod in arriving at their individual
solutions of an artistic problem. With Loren Oliver,
art is an intellectual exercise as well as an aesthetic
experience.

Mr. Oliver's method of teaching is "the problem."
In the basic Design Studio course. Art 1-2, he poses
a series of problems to his students, starting from
the simplest forms working with line and texture and
continuing to complex problems dealing with the
control of line and space in value and color. The
principles he teaches may be applied to any branch
of art: to the Old Masters and to commercial art; to
representational painting and to abstract design.

For example, when his class studies perspective, it
examines all the types of perspective used in the
history of painting, to analyze the effect of each type
and the method of attaining that effect. The
members of the class draw an example of each de-
vice, and learn to control it and to use it for their
purposes.

"Many of the new students object to this ap-
proach," Mr. Oliver admitted. "They think some-
how that art should be a free expression — even
though they would soon find, if they were allowed

to, that they had little to express. But it isn't an
accident that you produce a good painting. The girls
arc learning what it takes. They learn that you must
practice the elements of technique, so that ultimately
they are second nature, you know how to do them
without thinking about them. Then you use them as
a part of your art."

The problems in the introductory art studio all
lead to a final project, during which the student
chooses a work of literature, analyzes it for its kin-
aesthetic quality, then finds devices that will repre-
sent these qualities, devices that have been the solu-
tions to preceding problems. She constructs with
these devices a painting that will represent the liter-
ary work in a visual medium.

So stated, this sounds somewhat artificial. The
paintings that result are quite pleasing. One on view
in the studio this spring is from William Blake's
"Tiger! Tiger! Burning Bright." It is done in caseine,
by a spatter technique. The predominant colors are
orange and yellow, but there are within the spatter
dots of cool colors — blues and greens — for contrast,
the contrast making the orange and yellow seem
brighter, hotter. The shape of the tiger is open, so
that he becomes a part of the flame.

Another illustrates the journeys of Ulysses, and is
the representation of a map of the Mediterranean as
it was in ancient times, brown lines on a lighter
brown background, with the warrior's armament su-
perimposed upon it and a border of classical de-
signs. Still another, from the quasi-poetry of Thom-

as Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, is of the Grand
Canyon, a door-like place of stone, with the leaf
motif evident and a closure that, as a human skull,
represents the theme of death that runs throughout
the novel.

1 he students submit these paintings in lieu of a
final examination. Along with the painting they
present a list of the devices they have used as solu-
tions to the problems the painting posed, with rea-
sons for choosing these particular devices. They
have, also, a list of the devices studied during the
year that they chose not to employ, with reasons for
these choices as well.

Design studio members submit at the end of each
semester in addition a notebook of pictures they
have found in magazines, art folders, and so on —
not necessarily "artistic" pictures, but often adver-
tisements, that represent the devices they have stud-
ied. Some of these notebooks show a taste and an
understanding that make them a work in themselves.

The intermediate studio. Art 115, 116 goes
beyond the study of basic problems to the study of
technique. "This is a particularly good course for
the History of Art major," Mr. Oliver pointed out.
"We begin with Egyptian technique, and use the
original recipes of the period when we know them to
mix our own paints. A student who tries it herself
has a much greater feeling for the involvement of
the artistic in his work."

In the studio are handsome examples of wax

paintings, as practiced by the Egyptians; of secco,
caseine on dry plaster, as practiced during the Italian
Renaissance; of tempera, as in medieval and early
Renaissance times, from which oil paintings grew.
One remarkable quality of the student work is that it
does not seem to be exercises, but is done with care
and with love. The work is something of a tour de
force, but it has the appearance of spontaneous art.

The same is true of the painting done to demon-
strate and to study technique. Each student works
on the same still life, but chooses for herself a tech-
nique. The still life is a violin case, a violin, a
half-filled glass, a picture on the wall, and a cur-
tained window. Out of the window, in each girl's
painting, is a landscape that is a copy of a painting
that she likes — by Sisley, by Bonnard, by Rousseau.
The technique of the whole must be like the tech-
nique of this painting being copied. Therefore each
student rearranges the still Hfe to some extent, and a
room full of canvases standing before one model
shows not a single repetition of style or technique.

In the more advanced studios, the student has
learned the devices, and has learned to control her
technique, to such an extent, that, ideally, the de-
vices and methods have become intuitive. It is this
for which she, and Mr. OHver, strive. This, and a
richness of learning and of feeling that education
and maturity combine to produce. For technique
alone is never enough. "Art comes from the per-
son," Loren Oliver said positively. "No matter how
talented you are, you must have something to say."

for love, not money

Comments from Students:

^AST October the novelist Harper Lee spent
three days at Sweet Briar. She didn't come to take
part in a symposium or give a "reading" or stand on
a platform and lecture. Almost every well-known
writer one can name does that nowadays — all the
way from Auden and Bellow to Warren and Wilbur
— and they do it in a very business-like manner,
with agents, canned speeches, and tight travelling
schedules. Like politicians on the campaign trail, the
barnstorming poets fly in, autograph a few books,
read passionately from their works, and fly out again
— anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000 richer.

The system works because writers need money
and the schools want "live" culture. When a Lecture
Committee has, say, $2,000 to spend on a "literary"
person, the only real problem is deciding how they
want to spend it, whether they want one Auden, two
Fiedlers, or four Galway KinneUs.

In the end, what is wrong with this system of
bringing writers to the campus is how mechanical it
is, like buying love: You get the same thing every-
one else does, or you get what you pay for. Nothing
fresh or new, and nothing very human. Auden at
Sweet Briar would be no different from Auden at
Vassar or Auden at Ohio State. Not that he could
not be new and fresh everywhere he went, but that
the system itself can only produce hackneyed per-
formances.

Harper Lee made it plain before she got here that
she wasn't coming to give a performance: no spot-
Hghts, no drum-rolls, no purple flags flying. As she
wrote in her letter of acceptance to President Pan-
nell:

Please don't expect too much. So jar, I have been
exceedingly fortunate in that my income has enabled
me to abstain from literary festivals, writers' confer-
ences, ladies' clubs, etc., and I'll tell you frankly
that I'd enlist in the Job Corps rather than partici-
pate in them. Therefore my experience is extremely
limited. Also, I've had almost no contact with to-
day's young people, so I expect to learn far more at
Sweet Briar than I can possibly impart. Do you still
want me?

If you do, then I cannot tell you of the happiness
it will bring me to make a small down payment on
the great debt I owe you. In many ways yours was
one of the great influences on my early life. Al-
though I've never measured up to it, I have never
forgotten it.

"Her remarks about her own
writing made it clear that an au-
thor's work is never complete — and
that often long hours result only in
frustration,"

"I was impressed by Harper Lee's
openness. If she didn't like a ques-
tion put to her, she would let us
know right away."

"I think most people are inclined
to think of an artist, literary or
otherwise, as a sort of super-human
being. This was the most striking
thing about Harper Lee: she seemed
very 'earthy.' She did not talk down
to the creative writing students.
Miss Lee talked to us as a group of
young adults, as a group of poten-
tially good writers."

"Harper Lee's visit was the most
stimulating occasion I've experi-
enced during my two years at Sweet
Briar. Her wit and warmth were
outstanding and pervaded the at-
mosphere of any place she went. It
astounded me that she had a valid
opinion or convincing argument on
every subject mentioned."

Harper Lee

by William E. Smart, Jr.

In short. Harper Lee came as a person, not a
celebrity, and did so out of gratitude to a former
teacher ■at the University of Alabama. To know this
is essential for a genuine understanding of what lay
behind the quality of Miss Lee's visit. She came to
talk to students informally, especially to the young
writers, but not to be lionized — just as all writers
have a few special places they will go and be them-
selves and not think of the visit as a contract being
fulfilled.

And that is how it went. For the three days she
was here she wandered around campus, ate a couple
of meals in the Refectories, drank coffee in the Date
House, met a number of the faculty, and sat in on
classes. To the creative writers she made one point
over and over; that writing is hard work, that it
comes easily for no one (especially a good writer),
and that a writer writes and writes and is never
wholly satisfied. Whoever might have thought there
was something romantic about being a writer was
soon disillusioned. They saw that Miss Lee was
alert, intelligent, and witty, but that her achievement
lay not simply in possessing those talents, but in
putting them to hard use. To write well has little to
do with being "arty" or Bohemian, and everything
to do with intelligent dedication, she explained. And
she emphasized the idea that it was extremely un-
likely that anyone could write well who did not read
widely — and not just the writers of his own day, but
all the writers he could. During her own undergrad-
uate days, she said, she had spent as little time as
possible on her courses in order to have the most
time for reading where her inclinations led her. That
had been the best part of college: having a library
full of books. They had been her real education.

One evening she sat in the lobby of Meta Glass
(after a dinner with the writers) and simply an-
swered questions from several dozen girls sitting
around on the floor.

"What did you think of the movie version of your
book?"

"I liked it." She smiled at the possibility that her
answer came as a surprise: writers aren't supposed
to like what Hollywood does to their novels.

"What did you think of the little boy?" someone
asked.

"I thought he was very good," she replied, turn-
ing her head to look sharply, humorously, at her

"Far from being encouraging to
young writers, her description of the
Intense pain and uncertainty of writ-
ing is depressing for anyone who
aspires to be more than a dillet-
ante."

"The amount of love and labor
that she puts into her work is amaz-
ing. As she said, writing is skill
which is partially talent but mostly
work. Her views, while those of an
artist, are realistic, disproving the
premise that art is the product of
eccentricity."

"What made her further appeal-
ing was her interest in the college
student. 'Is there a new morality?'
she asked. Tm here to find out
about you.' "

"Unlike many successful people,
Miss Lee made no attempt to make
us believe that a writer's life is
'easy' or 'fun.' If anything, she let
us know that it takes years of hard
work and great personal sacrifice
to achieve any recognition as a suc-
cessful author."

questioner. (In a plain, almost tomboyish face, she
has very sharp eyes and looks directly at people.)

Naturally, there was a lot of curiosity, especially
about her relationship to Truman Capote and the
extent to which she had collaborated in the research
for //; Cold Blood. Yes, she had known Dick and
Perry. No, she had done none of the writing.

No, the characters in To Kill A Mockingbird
were not drawn from real life — not exactly," Not if
you mean 'Were they exact portraits of actual peo-
ple?' " That took some explaining.

On Integration and The South she answered with
an intelligence and honesty to match the patience
with which she had answered the merely curious
questions at other times. She was generous and sym-
pathetic in a way that only a deeply concerned na-
tive to the area could be.

In the end. Harper Lee's naturalness and lack of
pretention must have come as something of a sur-
prise to many of her questioners. But that she was
also interested in them, that she, too, had a few
questions up her sleeve — about what they thought,
what they believed in, what they wanted to make of
themselves — must have come as even more than a
surprise: a shock, perhaps!

The difference in ages dwindled. One could tell
that it was not simply a matter of age, but that Miss
Lee had always — even as an undergraduate at Ala-
bama — been as alert and curious as she was here,
twenty years later. And therefore, that anyone might
become so at any moment. All it took was sloughing
off one's masks and the thousand shapes of vanity.
Even if only a few students saw this, it was worth it,
and worth whatever disappointments there may have
been that she hadn't ascended a stage and been visi-
ble to all at once — visible but unknowable, Uke
whatever celebrity you see anywhere, whether he's
Robert Frost playing the lovable old poet from New
England or Ernest Hemingway posing for the
LOOK photographer on the plains of Africa. As her
friends would say, we saw Nelle, not Harper, Lee —
and that is the difference between Love and Money.

"She is certainly not to be under-
estimated as a person — it was tlie
lionesty and sincerity that most im-
pressed me — and as a person first,
as a person who is a writer, she
made her impression at Sweet Briar.
As a writer, she speaks best through
her work, not about it."

"She has as little tact as a lady
from the South can get away with.
Yet she is a lady, a very warm, in-
telligent, thought-provoking one,
with quick black eyes and a laugh
like Santa Claus."

"What impressed me most about
Harper Lee was the way she in-
stilled in an old Yankee like me a
real admiration for the South and
for the Southern writer."

"Her answers to our questions
were quick yet thoughtful and ex-
tremely useful and interesting to a
beginning writer. She made me think
twice when she said writing was
almost a priesthood."

"I will especially remember how
she spoke of the South as her Coun-
try, while at the same time not
really separating it from the North.
Also interesting was her idea that
the way the South would rise again
is through its writers and artists,
since the heritage of the South is
more conducive to the creative
world than that of the North."

quo vadis, art major?

F you were a Sweet Briar graduate with a major
in art, what would you be doing the year after your
Commencement? Five years after? Ten years? The
:hances are that you would have used your major
field of study in some practical way, and that even if
you were not doing so, and had never done so, you
would feel strongly that your studies at Sweet Briar
had given you what one graduate calls "the ability
not just to look, but to see."

You might well have continued your studies —
jither in the history of art to earn a master's degree,
in the applied arts, or in some related field like ar-
:hitecture or interior design. You might have land-
ed a job in which you could use your major — guid-
ing a deluxe tour through three weeks of European
art galleries, editing photographs and copies of
paintings to illustrate books, working in an estab-
iished museum or gallery, or helping to found a
small museum or gallery. If your job had little or
nothing to do with the history of art, you might
bring your knowledge to it just the same. One alum-
na teaching fourth grade in a small private school
iinds herself "introducing art into everything from
math to geography."

When the Art Department at Sweet Briar sent
inquiries earlier this year to seventy-six of the alum-
nae who had been art majors, beginning with the
Class of 1954 and going through last year's graduat-
ing class, replies from two-thirds of them showed a
wide range of activities and a homogeneity of atti-
tude. Whether the alumna writes television shows
for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, or enlarges the
horizons of her household with community duties,
she is overwhelmingly grateful for her training and
believes that it adds continually to the meaning of
her life.

Let us look at some examples of this genus, the
Art Major Alumna. Julia T. Green, '58, having de-
cided upon graduation to work in Boston, presented
herself at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts one
rainy afternoon, even though she had been told that
the famous institution had virtually no positions
available to the inexperienced. "I was hired on the
spot for a part-time job with the then-new Sales
Desk," Julie said. "It was better than nothing, and I
think they thought that if I was willing to be out in
that weather, I could probably be depended upon."

The part-time job became a full-time one, and
Julie found herself managing the Museum's pho-

tographs of its objects and helping those who need-
ed such photographs for research. She was appoint-
ed next the secretary to the Curator of the
Department of Classical Art, quickly became a
proficient typist, and learned the routine of the De-
partment. Her "secretarial" duties included working
with visiting scholars, helping do the research on
new acquisitions, editing and typing all the books
and pamphlets that the Department publishes — and
also work in the galleries. "We have begun an enor-
mous job of relocating and renovation in our gal-
leries, and I have been doing a lot of this work,"
Julie said. "One must know how to handle a fragile
object such as a paper-thin gold wreath, how to pick
up a Greek vase, how to care for bronzes, how to
tell the utility men where to put their hands in lifting
a particularly heavy object — all these things take
time and patience to learn."

i\ fter time out for an Egyptian archaeological
expedition, during which she resigned from the staff,
Julie returned to the Museum to take a part-time
job with its Television Department. "This was some-
thing I had been interested in previously and had
been involved in as a volunteer," Julie said. "The
Museum produces two TV shows weekly over Bos-
ton's educational television station, plus being active
nationwide. My work entailed researching for the
'Museum Open House' programs, and being an ex-
tra hand at the taping of these programs. Most espe-
cially I worked on the scripts and visual material for
the 'Images' programs. This was most rewarding,
and once I was familiar with the set-up I was able to
write some of the programs myself. I concentrated
on programs of a Classical nature, such as the
Acropolis and Ovid.

"This part-time job was fascinating, but it was not
providing me with enough money to live on. The
Classical Department heard of my plight, as I
looked for something else, and asked me to return
to the fold. I did. And again I am immersed in anti-
quities and manuscripts and galleries."

To participate in the archaeological dig in Egypt,
Julie obtained six-months' leave of absence from the
Museum, found a temporary replacement, and re-
ceived free passage to the eastern Mediterranean
through the National Geographic Society. In 1962
she joined the staff of the American Research
Center in Egypt's Expedition in Nubia.

"Upon arriving in Egypt on the day before
Thanksgiving, I was informed that 'we' had just
bought a Nile river houseboat, a dahabiyah, which
we would convert into living and working quarters
for the expedition. It would be part of my job to
outfit this boat with provisions for twelve persons
plus. With limited French and no Arabic, I some-
how managed to buy bedding, dining, and living
equipment, everything from sheets, blankets, dishes,
utensils, and food to medical supplies and much of
the digging equipment.

"Of course, I had a great deal of help from the
Director of the Expedition and the Secretary of
ARCE. I could not have done it alone. For instance,
I would never have known where to find the best
buys in towels, nor could I have haggled so success-
fully over the price of two dozen small knives. We
had to count our pennies, so this was all very impor-
tant.

"The houseboat got converted and outfitted and
the staff was gathered, and we moved upstream to
the site of Gebel Adda, which was about three miles
south of Abu Simbel. The expedition lasted much
longer than had been anticipated, and I decided to
stay with it. It was then that I resigned from the
Museum staff, and that was why I returned to a
part-time job rather than to my old position.

"The Egyptian experience was, and still is, the
most fulfilling I have ever known. The work was
hard but more rewarding than any I have ever done
here, even to seeing a new gallery opened, one that
has absorbed a year or two of time and effort, or a
program produced that was my own brainchild, or a
catalogue published after a couple of years of
work."

Julia Green happened upon a career by being
present at exactly the right moment. Many Sweet
Briar graduates, fearing to leave so much to chance,
proceed to graduate school to learn more about
their field and therefore make themselves more in-
dispensable on the market. Such a one is Ann Percy,
'62, who has been in graduate schools since leaving
Sweet Briar. She received the master's degree from
Pennsylvania State University in December, 1965,
with a thesis in Neapolitan Baroque painting, a cata-
logue of the paintings of Bernardo Cavallino, under
Dr. Robert Enggass. "During these years I had a
half-time graduate assistantship," Ann said, "which
was a mild form of paid employment. I spent two
years in Pennsylvania and a year in Naples and
Rome."

Ann is now in London, in the midst of her second
year of research at the Courtauld Institute. This re-
search, which will lead to the Ph.D. degree, is again
in Italian Baroque painting. Her thesis will be on
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, under Sir Anthony
Blunt. When it is completed, and the degree hers,
Ann would like to do museum work.

Another graduate student is Anne Booth, '64,
who will take her master's degree this June in Clas-
sics, with an emphasis on classical archaeology.
During her preparation for this degree, at Brown

Sweet Briar students benefit by the regular visits of the
artmobile of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

University, Anne has taken time for a dig in Italy.
She plans to continue her studies, working towards
the Ph.D. more specifically in art history, with an
emphasis on Classics. She, too, wants a career in
museum work.

/». student who thought she would work on
through the doctorate, and for the moment has
changed her mind, is Anne English, '65, who will
receive the M.A. this June from New York Univer-
sity's Institute of Fine Arts. "I frankly think this is
the wrong time in my life to be spending ten hours
every day in a library," Anne said. "I think the
great day has come for me to find a job. I must
confess that I don't feel particularly qualified to do
much of anything — after two years of graduate
school I am only the more aware of how little I
know!"

Such modesty is becoming, and certainly the feel-
ing is general. But it belies the truth. One alumna of
the many who have gone from advanced studies into
a related field of employment is Ella-Prince Trim-
mer Knox, '56, who after receiving the master's de-
gree in the history of art from Yale University in
1960, taught the history of art — along with English
and ancient history — for five years at St. Catherine's
School in Richmond. She also taught an adult class
in nineteenth century painting, summer 1966, and
an adult class in Renaissance and Baroque painting
last fall.

Not all the art majors at Sweet Briar have been so
thoroughly concerned with the academic side of the
discipline. Irene Pschorr McHugh, '63, after living
in Munich, attending evening sketch classes and de-
signing window displays on a free lance basis, has
married Joseph McHugh, brother of Rachel
McHugh Lilly, '63, and is painting in San Francisco.
"Here I find an artistic cHmate that I have not expe-
rienced before," she said. "Suddenly I am overflow-
ing with ideas, and the old problem of self-discipline
has vanished. The day doesn't hold enough hours.

"My style has changed as well. When I last
worked in Munich I was painting rather whimsical
pictures. Now there is much more bright color and
very intricate design in my work. It is becoming far

more explosive, and definitely psychedelic, and
greatly reflects the here and now. San Francisco —
we live just north of the Golden Gate — is a city that
has extreme beauty and a sense of freedom. It is a
breeding ground for controversial and telling new
developments."

Irene is working now toward an exhibition of her
works. Her husband, an artist who studied at the
Rhode Island School of Design, designs posters and
recently completed his first book of drawings, the
first printing of which is almost sold out. Called
Flapping Your Arms Can Be Flying, the book has a
text by a West Coast psychiatrist.

And post-graduate study can be a matter of pleas-
ure and of developing one's talent, rather than a
means to a career. Frances Mallory Meyers, '64,
whose paid employment is as receptionist, secretary
and accountant with a manufacturing company, has
attended three semesters of evening classes at the
Cleveland Institute of Art. Her portrait instruction
was by John Teyral, Nancy Sheridan and Jose Cin-
tron. A summer water color course met in different
parts of the city rather than in a studio, and was an
education in the community as well as in medium
for a new Clevelander. Frances hopes to receive an
Evening School Certificate in landscape and figure
painting, for which eighteen semester hours' credit
are required — in her schedule, two evenings a week
for six semesters.

V^areers as museum administrators and teachers,
careers or avocations in the applied arts — these are
for art majors with callings in their field. What
about the art major whose life follows the pattern of
the majority of Sweet Briar alumnae lives: marriage,
children, and a committment to the community?
Does she bring her training to this pattern? One
alumna who has done so is Betty Forsyth Harris,
'60, of Lynchburg. Although she has done no formal
study toward an advanced degree, she has audited
courses in Renaissance art, American art, and
American architecture, at Randolph-Macon Wom-
an's College and at Washington and Lee University.
Although she has not used her training in the history
of art professionally, she has done so. and exten-
sively, as a volunteer.

"Having never been exposed to any art history in
my education, prior to Sweet Briar," Betty said, "I
felt it would be an important supplement to the
Lynchburg school system to introduce some sort of
program in this field — to awaken even the young
student to an awareness of his surroundings and to
help him to have a more meaningful visual experi-
ence, whether it be in a museum, church, school, or
at home. I found in the Junior League of Lynchburg
some interest in doing a project of this kind.

"Investigations were made, the project was pre-
sented to the League last spring, and it was accept-
ed. Since then, my committee of twelve Junior
League volunteers has met with me to learn about
American architecture. After much reading, looking.
and research, we began in March with the seventh

and ninth grades at Linkhorne Junior High School
in Lynchburg, offering two slide-lecture discussions
on American architecture of the nineteenth century.
At the same time we take field trips to the old Court
House, built in 1852, and to nineteenth century
houses on Madison Street in Lynchburg. We fit our
program into the regularly scheduled applied art
class which meets one fifty-minute period every day
for eighteen weeks. To supplement our program, we
have gathered objects of interest from the period —
handmade lace, jewelry, guns, and even toothpick
cups — and we take selections to the schools for the
students to see and handle. If the project is judged a
success, we have plans for expansion next year.

"Our committee has also been instrumental in the
Lynchburg Junior League's becoming a member of
the National Trust. I would hope that this might
lead to another project, that of restoring and pre-
serving buildings of historical interest in the Lynch-
burg area."

1 he variety in the lives of Sweet Briar alumnae
art majors is exciting. Some, like Dianne Johnson
DeCamp, '55, and Susan Terjen Bernard, '63, have
studied interior design; some like Carol Cole, '65,
have taken courses in drawing and painting. Eliza-
beth Meyerink Lord, '59. attended a commercial art
school in San Francisco. Judy Rohrer Davis, '61,
spent a year studying art, archaeology, Etruscology
and Egyptology at the University of Florence. Betsy
Worrell Coughlin, '58, conservation-minded wife of
a Pennsylvania state senator, counts "most thrilling"
three years of study at the Barnes Foundation in
Merion. Martha Isdale Beach, '54, has moved easily
from graduate study, travel abroad and teaching
remedial reading to her present post as production
coordinator in her husband's Nappe Corporation
which designs and builds equipment for water pollu-
tion control and research. Two former majors have
returned to Sweet Briar; Mary Jane Schroder Oliver,
'62, as staff assistant for the department of art, and
Byrd Stone, '56, as Director of the Nursery School.

Betty Forsyth Harris's initiative in the volunteer
field is not hers alone. Kay Dienst Heinsma, '62, for
example, is one of two Girls Friday at the Augusta
(Georgia) Museum, one of two in the state selected
for a pilot program under the Georgia Arts Com-
mission. The museum is housed in an 1802 building,
now restored, that once housed Richmond Acad-
emy, the South's oldest military school. It contains
objects of historical and artistic interest which Kay
and a friend study and arrange for exhibition, doing
their share of the dusting, polishing and mending at
the same time. Under the Arts Commission, the Au-
gusta Museum will become a supply center of paint-
ings, sculpture, graphics, and handcrafts for students
in that part of the state.

Many alumnae are doccnts in leading museums,
guiding school children through collections and
helping them to see rather than just to look. Ann
Crowell Lemmon, '60, was decent at the Houston
Museum of Fine Arts; Jana Bekins Anderson, '59,

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is decent at present at the Seattle Art Museum.
Mary Johnson Campbell, '58, gives volunteer lec-
tures to grades three through eight in suburban New
Jersey schools, on "A History of America through
its Houses" and "Seventeenth Century New Eng-
land."

And many, many alumnae art majors have used
their learning in their jobs. Elizabeth Farmer Owen,
'62, was assistant art librarian at the University of
Louisville before marrying and moving to New
York; now back in Louisville, she and her husband
continue their joint interest in the arts. Barbara
Boiling, '64, has been secretary to the curator at the
National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion; Nerissa von Boiir Walker, '63, is secretary-re-
ceptionist for Acquavella Galleries in New York. Be-
fore becoming assistant to the dean of the Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced Intemation
Studies, in Washington, Emily Stenhoiise Downs,
'57, worked with the Smithsonian Institution, the
National Cultural Center (Now the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts), and the Institute of Con-
temporary Art. Judy Harlwell Brooks, '62, was an
art editor, first for Houghton Mifflin in Boston, then
for Harcourt, Brace and World in New York. Be-
fore the arrival of a son caused her retirement and a
move to the suburbs, Judy took courses in drawing
and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.

Nancy-Lane Rogers, '63, worked for the Institute
for Contemporary Art in Boston and for a small
gallery in New York before joining the staff of
Time-Life, Inc., where she works with the picture
collection, cataloguing and writing captions for color
transparencies used by Life Magazine and other
publications. Suzanne Reitz Marchison, '60, is art
librarian at Vassar College, having earned the mas-
ter's degree in library service at Columbia after
working in New York at the Frick Collection, the
Prick Art Reference Library, and Professor Witt-
kower's private library. Frances Hanahan, '64, works
for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owens and
Merrill. And Anne Clark, '65, left for Italy in
February to join the Genesco Office in Florence.

J\ fter studying at the New York School of Interior
Design, Ginger Borah Slaughter, '62, worked at D.
H. Holmes, Ltd., in New Orleans and Treva Alex-
ander, Inc., in Richmond, and Margaret Johnson
Curtis, '62, at Martin's in Brooklyn and the Book-
mart in Bermuda. Ann Stevens Allen, '56, needed
no further study to land a job as interior decorator
for Jordan Marsh in Boston, where she worked for
two years following graduation.

Like alumnae in other fields, some art majors find
themselves at jobs unrelated to their field. Some-
times further study leads them there, as in the case
of Peggy Liebert, '57, who has the master's degree
in Christian education from Hartford Seminary
Foundation, with more study at the Presbyterian
School of Christian Education in Richmond. She has
taught elementary grades in the Richmond public
schools and done volunteer, and this year paid,

church work. Julia Fort, '63, is working towards the
master's degree in library science at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity.

As for employment, Linda Schwaah Hodges, '65,
works with the Lenoir County (N.C.) Welfare De-
partment; Cornelia Clarke Tucker, '64, with the
New Jersey regional office of the Office of Economic
Development; Milbrey Sebring Raney, '65, with the
Admissions Office at the University of North Caro-
lina at Chapel Hill. Pat Ashby Boesch, '58, has
worked for Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn.
Barbara McLamb Lindemann, '55, has worked in
advertising agencies and libraries. Virginia deBuys,
'64, works for the international liaison office of the
FMC Corporation. Fair MacRae Gouldin, '65,
works for the Educational Testing Service.

Whether or not she has made a career of her
field, or pursued her studies further, or turned her
knowledge to the benefit of the community, the
Sweet Briar art major is overwhelmingly grateful for
her training. She — to make the alumna art major an
abstraction — knows that she sees more, has devel-
oped what one alumna terms "an extra set of anten-
nae," because of her training, and that she appre-
ciates more of her world because of her knowledge.
She would doubtless sympathize, and as often as not
agree, with Suzanne Marchison, '60, who said,

"My art history major has been the most pro-
found influence in every area of my life. I'm ap-
palled so often at people who don't know how to
see, and I realize I was initiated to the 'high cold
peaks of art' in the Sweet Briar classroom. Art, and
my sharpened sensitivity to it, brings me much
pleasure and contentment. I'm always glad, too, that
I 'studied with Eleanor Barton' — a fine password in
the field."

Laurie deBuys Pannell '64 and son, Alexander, look at
some of Laurie's paintings in her "one man show."

a writer asks,
has Sweet Briar changed?

by Mary Lee Settle '40

Bare facts about Mary Lee Settle, '40 Assistant Profes-
sor of English at Bard College, fail to portray the vibrant,
colorful person she is. One hour with her in May and this
editor placed her high on the list of alumnae she would
like to know.

From West Virginia, Miss Settle came to Sweet Briar in
1936. Returning recently she wanted to see only what had
been here then as the Sweet Briar of that era will be the
locale of her new novel. The Clam Shell. Other novels
include: The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kin, and The Beulah
Trilogy; O Beulah Land, Know Nothing and Fight Night
On A Sweet Saturday. A story, Old Wives Tales, was in-
cluded in the O Henry Awards Collection, 1957, Twice
she was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Founda-
tion.

Miss Settle's accent betrays the years she spent in Eng-
land, 1942-55. Her one son, Christopher Weatherbee, is
a reporter on the Norfolk Virginia Pilot.

T was the fall of the Roosevelt-Landon election
in 1936. We arrived at Sweet Briar as freshmen with
cabin trunks from all over the country. Some of
them had pasted labels — from ships, from hotels in
London and Rome. I envied their possibility. They
stood open on the first night in rooms in Reid and
Grammer, one side hung with dresses on their tiny
hangers, the other with half-opened drawers pouring
out linen, shoes, treasures over the strange ugly
wooden furniture.

In the cabin trunks, for safety, were almost identi-
cal dresses. If we were lucky that year, we had black
evening dresses. It was the year of veils, Hal Kemp,
Astaire and Rogers, fitted black Chesterfields, and
the word "sophistication".

We were, under the camouflage, as tentative as
colts. We watched each other for signs that we could
be friends. We began to know where to walk, under
the beautiful ripening of the trees in early fall. We
walked in pairs, learning what wc wanted each other
to know, our new books balanced on our stomachs,
our skirts twelve inches from our "saddle-shoes".
Gradually a process took place, a melding. We wore
our hair in pins during the week. Our sweaters and
skirts were Shetland, in the mute colors of fruit.

Softly, into our honey heads, there was a permea-
tion of learning which I have never forgotten. Joseph
Dexter Bennett spilled chalk on his suit. Almost
imperceptively, he made us read Wadsworth. I
remember reading Ititimations oj Immortality from
Recollections oj Early Childhood alone in a class-
room. Outside the leaves of late fall were blowing
across the road toward the Inn.

I remember hiding with books. There was an at-
mosphere of study — underground, an intrigue of
brains and talent and passion, suspected, derided
then, blossoming in secret. We looked at the struc-
ture of the fall leaves under the microscopes of the
Botany lab. We pretended to be bored, but I have
not forgotten their skeletal skeins, their breathing
mouths. We droned the inevitable picnic in the Bois
de Boulogne in French, a picnic we would never
have with une Tante and un Oncle we would never
know. We strolled through the Dell to the frail
wristed voice teacher in a room in the gym, who
tried to train away our regional accents. We listened
to the Chapel choir, with girls we were beginning to
know looking for once, with their page boy hair, like
Italian angels, their heads rising out of white collars
over their black choir robes. We were opened to the
religions of the world by Miss Benedict (Mrs. Rol-
lins). She spoke gently and with passion, making us
forget, as we listened to her, our demanded preoccu-
pations. I found, in the library, only three books of
modern poetry. I shared them with two friends. Be-
hind it all. Miss Young protected us as well as she
could against herding for convenience, against ad-
ministrative blindness to our needs.

All that was private. In the public of our rooms,
and in the Inn, we talked about the University,
Princeton, Yale. We chalked up invitations for
weekends, and saw each other off on the always late
Southern Railroad. They were the days of proms,
bloody battlefields of "popularity", large orchestras,
and dancing in long sweeps like Astaire and Rogers.
In the Commons Room we smoked, played bridge.

and danced together to breakable, thick 78 records
on the phonograph.

Near the time of examinations in the spring of
that year, it was hot and scented with new growth,
green and heavy. We recited German prepositions to
each other in a kind of last day panic. They are,
after so long, still in my head like a song, the mean-
ing of which has been forgotten. But they bring back
spring and girls, some tentative and lovely, some al-
ready frozen in their tense certainty, as resistant to
growth and change as they would be for the rest of
their lives, all waiting, lounged about the Arcades,
for the Refectory to open.

I'm sure much of it is the same. Physical places
have their own timeless character — the smell of
buildings and the ground, the lushness of trees,
small lamps over desks in the rooms, where heads
are bent over pools of light and papers. Something
has been brought into the buildings, along the walks,
into the fields. But in my memory it is always the
winter of 1936, which moved into 1937 as the
spring became unbearably sensuous and lovely over
the country campus.

That was thirty years ago. I have published my
sixth book. It has been a long career and I have
only begun it. Now I teach for part of the year at
Bard College, in the Hudson Valley in New York
state. Sometimes, walking there under the trees, or
across the fields, I have a deja vii, a pang of recog-
nition, and I know that I will write about it. I know
why. We, of the generation of the forties, are re-
sponsible to the generation of the sixties. We have
borne them. They have earned the explanations of
their parents.

Something has changed in the closed world of col-
lege, perhaps more so at Bard, but I believe, from
what I hear of it, at Sweet Briar, too. I think it is
good. I feel at home in it for the first time. It is,
against the weight of the older generation's anti-
intellectual bias, against the old distrust of budding
talent, an outflow of acceptance, a questing, a de-
mand for questioning, for intelligence, for crea-
tive work. It is the generation of our children —
a wonderful generation. We should take pride in
them.

They, too, have their mores, their fashions, their
gestures. These have the same function as ours did
— that of recognition of each other. Their songs are
not the same. They are at once more innocent and

more realistic than our own. They wear mini-skirts
and long hair for the same reasons we wore our
Chesterfields that winter, for a kind of mutual pro-
tection in fashion. But unlike us, they will not be
intimidated into keeping the reality of their lives se-
cret, at least among themselves. I think they have
more courage.

It is hard to generalize about a generation. I
know that. But a 'temper of the times' can be heard,
felt, sensed. These times are at once, for them, more
adult, more honest, and more dangerous. They are
intent on making them so. Their vitality is, of
course, creating a way of living that affects us all.
We, of the forties, suddenly find ourselves looking
toward their living. I have learned much from my
students and I am grateful for it.

Wherever there is a student concerned, about his
or her rights, about the institution, about self-
expression, even about self-gratification, about the
world at large, that student is not bored. Bored stu-
dents are draining to teach. They destroy the ebul-
lience on which live, creative teaching depends.
They waste the time of their college, their faculty,
and their peers. This generation of students is not
bored.

As a generation, we could find them secretive and
mistrustful. I think we should face up to why this is
so. They have seen, in their life-time, too many
mores fail to sustain their elders. At their most
impressionable age, as small children (who can sel-
dom be fooled), most of them who could afford the
necessary luxury of a private college lived in an
over-fed, over-carpeted, flatulent world. They are
now asking pertinent and urgent questions about it,
about us, and about themselves.

Let them ask. I hope we have the guts to answer
honestly. If we do, much of the mistrust will fade
away.

Some of our children walk under the same trees
at Sweet Briar, sit in the same class-rooms, sun
themselves in the spring in the same Dell, have fash-
ions that only take the place of ours. But they are
not us. Any attempt on our part to recreate our own
lives through them is doomed to unhappy failure.

They can be hurt by our misunderstanding. They
can be forced to secrecy by our disapproval of their
diff'erence. On the other hand, they find our imita-
tions of them embarrassing and unwelcome. They
ask, simply, for our recognition and our respect.

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Alumnae Magazine Summer 1967

Editor Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34
Associate Editor Nancy St. Clair Talley, '56
Class Notes Editor Mary Vaughan Blackwell

Volume 37, No. 4

Issued four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer
by Sweet Briar College. Second class postage paid at Sweet
Briar, Virginia 24595.

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contents

2 Four Days When Faith and Learning Met
by Frances Kirven '68

4 You, Everyalumna, Are Here

The Memorial Chapel Dedication, As You
Might Have Seen It

8 Sweet Briar's Chaplains, Apt and Meet

9 Briar Patches

33 Alumni Administration Awards

34 The Evolution of the English Bible

from the collection of an alumna

38 The Strength of Tradition, the Freshness of Change
40 Bastille Day— 1967

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Frances Kirven, '68,
President of the Student
Government Association for
the coming academic year,
is a math major who says
she hopes her "lack of
literary talent won't hinder
this expression of my
personal reaction to such a
wonderful week end."
A successful math student,
already a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, she is not
unadept at such expression,
but her modesty is one of
her appealing qualities.

'weet Briar has long needed a chapel. The base-
ment of Manson and the lecture room of Guion did
not lend themselves to a spiritual atmosphere. Reli-
gion itself is a controversial and, at the same time,
a neglected aspect of our college life. Many of us
tend to sleep just a little too long on Sunday morn-
ings, or to substitute "sun worship" on the arcades
for Tuesday and Friday chapel services. Yet, because
of this semi-concerned religious attitude at Sweet
Briar, I was very much impressed with student at-
titudes and responses to the week end activities of
April 20 through 23.

The organ concert by Fenner Douglass, Professor
of Organ at the Oberlin College Conservatory of
Music, was a magnificent Thursday evening. Even
the fact that he was playing "behind our backs" (the
organ loft is in the west end of the Chapel; the pews
face the Altar at the east) did not detract from our
pleasure in his performance. The non-musicians as
well as the musicians enjoyed the recital, and many
of us benefited greatly from the whispered comments
of knowledgeable organ and piano students seated
near us. All in all, the performance was highly ap-
preciated.

The Lyman Lecture was given at 8 p.m. Friday by
Dr. Albert C. Outler, Professor of Historical Theol-
ogy at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern
Methodist University. Called "The Liberal Spirit and
the Future of Religion," the lecture opened vistas to
the new theological trends in religion today. Inter-
spersed with quite a few of Dr. Cutler's amusing
asides and anecdotes were the current intellectual
developments in religious thought, as well as a his-
tory of the development of these ideas. Many of us
who were currently taking "baby religion" (Religion
105, 106, The Old Testament and The New Testa-
ment) had been briefly exposed to many of these
ideas and were extremely fortunate to be able to hear
an in-depth presentation of these subjects.

The subject of the panel discussion on Saturday
morning, "The Meaning and Relevance of the Chris-
tian Faith," was "right up our alley." Though perhaps
attendance was not as high as had been anticipated,
everyone there thoroughly enjoyed the presentation
of the panel members. They were the Rt. Rev. Stephen
F. Bayne, Jr., Vice President of the Executive Coun-
cil of the Episcopal Church and Director of its Over-
seas Department; the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry,
President of the Central and Executive Committees
of the World Council of Churches, and the Rev.
John Macquarrie, Professor of Systematic Theology

at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Each
one expressed his beliefs about the meaning and rele-
vance of the Christian faith today, and each was most
charming in timing his remarks with a wrist watch,
so as not to exceed his allotted time. Each in his
own manner had much to tell us. We heard a
scholarly view of religion's role today as well as a
down-to-earth approach, and each was moving and
thought-provoking. After each talk the floor was
opened for discussion. Many questions had been pre-
pared previously and were given to our three dis-
tinguished doctors to bat around. We were all quite
stimulated by their enthusiasm and by their conver-
sance with the subjects of the questions. As the de-
liberations progressed, we students, as well as many
of the faculty and guests in the audience, were en-
gaged by our speakers and began asking some spon-
taneous questions. When time was called at noon,
everyone was reluctant to see this program end. We
we quite affected by these widely traveled and de-
lightfully "normal" clergymen, who were so well
grounded in scholarship and in current trends. We
came away with a much deeper understanding of the
significance of the Christian faith.

The Memorial Service for Miss Meta Glass was
held Saturday afternoon. Today's students at Sweet
Briar never knew her, yet we were aware of the great
respect and high admiration which she commanded at
Sweet Briar. Those of us who were able to attend the
service caught a glimmer of Miss Meta's personality
and enthusiasm and felt that we now knew something
of her contribution to the College.

The highlight of the Chapel Dedication Week End
was the Dedication Service itself, held on Sunday
morning. There was tremendous student enthusiasm
and response to everything about this dedication —
the attractive red-tassled programs, the procession of
visiting dignitaries, and the simple, yet effective, order
of service.

The Chapel was filled to overflowing. Students who
regularly attend services there, and many who don't
frequent this area quite so often, came for this special
event. Chairs placed around the walls were all oc-
cupied. As the service progressed, the whole con-
gregation seemed to respond to the service and to
the purpose for which it was being held. It was an
inspirational ending to a wonderful week end.

As I said at the beginning of this article. Sweet
Briar has been lacking in proper religious facilities.
Now we finally have a lovely new chapel which blends
beautifully with the style of the other buildings and
which seems to bind our whole community together.
It was only fitting for us to have such a stimulating
and enlightening week end in which to dedicate such
a structure.

All who attended the events reaped great benefits
from the activities and are indeed grateful to those on
the staff, to the administration, and to the faculty,
especially to the Department of Religion, who helped
plan the week end. In March we had a stimulating
series of lectures and events when we explored con-
temporary art and thought in America. Now, perhaps,
our new Chapel will make us want to explore more
fully our spiritual needs along with our quest for
knowledge in the whole field of liberal arts.

You, Everyalumna, Are Here

The Memcrial Chapel Dedicarion, As You Might Have Seen It

. t is a beautiful Sunday mornrng. The sno makes
dappled patterns through the new lea%'es. Sweet Briar
is incredibly green and fresh with spring. The air is
so dear diat each bird's song sounds distinctly. You
are eariy for Ae dedication of the new Memorial
Chisel, this twenty-third day of ApriL and you have
time to admire the building before the procession
forms.

It is a massive sfmcbne, yet the ardiitecEs, Oliver
&. Smith of Norfolk, Virginia, used their skiQ to con-
vert the quality erf mass to an inqnsmg grace. Like
the buildings neaiby, for wfaidli it has become the
focal point, it is (rf soft red brick laid in Flemish
bond, the anAitectural style a modified American
Georgiaa diaiactenstic of the late 1 7th and the 1 8tb
ceatioies. You stand mder the portico, near one of
the four stone pillars that supports its pediment and
seem now to dominate the campus, and you reflect
iqxm lie many who have loved the College and who
have worked and given for this new Chapel.

Fiom the R^ectoiy arcade, from Gray arcade,
fnoiB ibc steps to Fletdier, men and women in aca-
demic and clerical attire appear. You glance at your
watch. Almost 10:45, the time for the procession to
form. It does so in a quietness that seems reverence
— ^you realize that the space of the country, the trees,
the birds, give tiot same aoonstica] bush in the midst
of activity that the Wg*i vatdted arches of a large
cathedral lend its congregation. The organ prelude,
Louis-Nicolas Cleranriiaiilt's Suite de deuxieme ton
played bv' John R. SBmnon. Associate Professor
of Mtisic comes muted through the open doors.

The procesEioo begms, to move, not with a hymn
bat w^ a Litaiiy diat ^ves a sense of time accom-
plished — you are reminded of the Celtic fathers
who met St Angxftme. singing a litany, of thoosands
of medieval monks iHio gadieied daily throng the
years m this manner at Mont St MicheL at St. Mark's
in FloienoB (was Fca Angpilim amoi^ tiiem?). singing
a fitaiy. Tins pnxession today is led by the Chaplain
of the College. Behind him are the Choir and the
ChoicBastH; menfeni of the Church and Cbapd
CooHBittBe, lepies a Bl ati wes of schools and adl^es,
members rf the Lynchburg and Amherst clergy.

The prooession ootfinnes. Yon see the Executive
Sfwrtai y of tte Ap po m at to x Predyytery. the District
Saperinteadent rf the Methodist Church, the Presi-
ded of Hac Wagsaa. L mhta an Synod, the Moderator
of die PiediytBriaB Omndi in Wkpuvsi, the Chaplain

from nearby Father Judge Mission Seminar\". the
Dean of the Southwest Deanery and Pastor of Holy
Cross Parish. Next march the Bishop of Richmond,
the Bishop of Easton. the Bishop Coadjutor of South-
em X'irginia, and the Bishop of Southwestern Vir-
ginia.

Following a marshal, the procession continues with
the Chairman of the Judicial Board of the College,
the President of the Y.W.C.A., the President of the
Student Government .Association, the President of
Sweet Briar College 1946-50. The Dean of the Col-
lege. The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. The President of the College. The
words of the Litany ring.

O God the Father, who has made us and all the

world;

Hear us. and have mercy.
O God the Son. who hast redeemed us and all man-
kind;

Hear us, and have mercy.
O God the Holy Spirit, who sanctifiest us and all the
elect people of God;

Hear us. and have mercy.
O holy, blessed, and adorable Trinity, Creator, Re-
deemer, and Sanctifier;

Hear us. and have mercy.
Let us pray for the peace of the whole world, and
for the welfare and unity of the Church of God;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Let us pray for the President of the United States
of America, the Governor of this Commonwealth,
and all in civil authority;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Let us pray for the Clerg}* and for all who are called
to a ministr>' ia the house of God;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Let us pray for one another, and for all whose hearts
are with us, who desire to be remembered in our
prayers, and remember us in their own;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Let us jway for all who are afflicted in mind, body,
or estate;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Let us pray for all that are in danger, necessity, or
tribulation;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That we may foUow the way that leads to truth, and
follow the truth that leads to life;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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That we may follow the steps of our Redeemer Jesus
Christ, who alone is the way, the truth, and the life;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That finishing here the work of our salvation, we may
rest hereafter in thy holy peace;

We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us.

Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us.
O Lamb of God; that takest away the sins of the world:

Grant us thy peace.
O Lamb of God; that takest away the sins of the world:

Have mercy upon us.
O Christ, hear us.
O Christ, hear us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

. hey are all in now. You have slipped into a place
at the back, and you have a fine view of the large
room filled with light, music, worshippers, and the
Presence of God. It is a simple room, with high pan-
eled walls and simple box pews much like those in
Colonial churches. The tall Georgian windows are of
slightly tinted glass panes. The room's shape is cruci-
form, the shallow trancepts forming arms of an an-
cient-styled cross. At its center, the Altar is a simple
table of Lynchburg greenstone, elevated by three ris-
ings and dominated by a Cross. This Cross stands
behind the Altar and rises fifteen feet above the floor.
Of American walnut bound in hammered aluminum,
it catches the light from all sides. It is properly the
dominant feature of the Chapel, inescapable and im-
pressive.

Now the members of the procession have taken
their places, and the President of the College goes
to the Sanctuary step to welcome the congregation:
Friends in Christ Jesus,
In the name of Sweet Briar College
I greet you, and I bid you welcome.
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father,
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus.
You read responsively, following the Dean of the
College, Psalm 122, which begins, "I was glad when
they said unto me, We will go into the house of the
Lord." You sing with the congregation the hymn,
"Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of crea-
tion." Now the Chaplain of the College comes to the
Sanctuary step and says.

Come, Holy Spirit, the free dispenser of all graces:
Visit the hearts of thy faithful servants, and re-
plenish them with thy sacred inspirations; Illumi-
nate our understandings, and inflame our affec-
tions, and sanctify all the faculties of our souls; that
we may know, and love, and constantly do the
things that belong to our everlasting peace; who
with the Father and the Son reignest God, world
without end. Amen.
The anthem by the choir, singing in the loft at the

west end of the building, is Brahms's "How lovely
are Thy dwellings fair." You remember it from your
own days at Sweet Briar. The passages by the organ,
designed and built by the Holtkamp Organ Company
of Cleveland and given by Mrs. J. J. Perkins in honor
of her daughter, Mrs. Charles N. Prothro (Elizabeth
Perkins), and her granddaughter, Mrs. Frank J. Yea-
ger (Kathryn Prothro), both Sweet Briar alumnae,
soar eastward through the Chapel and seem to fill it
completely. While it fills you, too, you notice the tall
candlesticks on the Altar, walnut bound in aluminum
like the Cross. You notice the floor-length cloth over
the Altar, its side panels of rose velvet and green and
gold brocade, its frontal bearing an embroidered
stylized version of the College seal against a panel
of dark green velvet. You remember that these were
designed by the Rev. Edward N. West, Canon Sacrist
of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and a member
of the Joint Commission on Church Architecture and
the Allied Arts of the Episcopal Church. You notice,
too, the large brass chandelier, its 18th century Colo-
nial style harmonizing with the paneled walls and the
box pews.

The anthem ends. Mounting the Colonial-style
pulpit is the Most Rev. John Elbridge Hines, Presiding
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, who in his
sermon asserts that faith and learning belong together.
"In some ages past the Church has provided the only
secure climate in which science could flourish; in
others, misguided churchmen have thwarted science,"
he says. "In our time, we must reaffirm the rightful
place of both inquiry and worship. This chapel illus-
trates the harmony of faith and knowledge."

As an Offertory Anthem the choir sings the hyimi,
"For all the saints, who from their labors rest," and
when the offering is presented the congregation stands
to sing the Doxology.

Now the President and the Chaplain are at the
Sanctuary step, and the President makes this charge:
Reverend Sir, in the name of Sweet Briar College,
I charge you, and the Church and Chapel Commit-
tee, with the responsibility of ordering the services
and all other matters pertaining to the use of this
Chapel. And I pray that all that is planned and
wrought through this Chapel may be for the per-
fecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
and for the edifying of the Body of Christ, till we
all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowl-
edge of the Son of God, unto the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ; to whom be the
glory forever.
And the Chaplain answers,

In the name of the Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel,
and the Church and Chapel Committee, I acknowl-
edge before this Congregation our responsibility
for maintaining this Chapel, and of using it to set
forward the unity of Christ's Church. That we may
be enabled to see and to grasp our opportunities,
and to discharge our duties, in this matter, I desire
that you, and all the people here present, will pray
for us: pray earnestly; pray often; pray now.
You stand then, and with the rest of the congrega-
tion say the Lord's Prayer.

You remain standing for the hymn, "Glorious
things of thee are spoken." During the hymn those
taking part in the Dedication Ceremony take their
places behind the Altar. You are struck by the spac-
iousness of the Chapel, a quality it possesses even
when full.

The first lesson, Isaiah 40: 1-5, is read by the
President of the Student Government Association. Dr.
Martha B. Lucas, President of the College 1946-1950,
gives a prayer, and the second lesson, Hebrews 12:1-2,
is read by the President of the Y.W.C.A. The Chair-
man of the Judicial Board reads a Prayer of St. Paul
the Apostle.

The formal pronouncement of the dedication is
taken largely from the Book of Common Order of
the Church of Scotland and the service of dedication
of the Chapel of Unity at Coventry. The chaplain
begins, saying.

The Lord be with you;

Answer And with thy spirit.

Chaplain Our help is in the name of the Lord;

Answer Who hath made heaven and earth.

Chaplain Except the Lord build the house;

Answer They labor in vain that build it.

Chaplain Blessed be the name of the Lord;

Answer From this time forth for evermore.

Then you join with the congregation to say.

In the Faith of Jesus Christ we hallow the Sweet
Briar Memorial Chapel to the Service of God
the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, and
we dedicate it to be a Chapel of Unity: in the
name of the Father, and of the Son and of the
same Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Chaplain continues.

To the glory of God the Father, who has called us

by his grace.

To the glory of God the Son, who loved us and

gave himself for us.

To the glory of God the Holy Spirit, who illumines

and sanctifies us.

We dedicate this Chapel. Amen.

To be a place of prayer for all people,

To be a place where all people may seek God's

will for the breaking down of every wall of par-
tition.

To be a place of reconciliation, of healing, and of

peace.

We dedicate this Chapel. Amen.

Peace be to this house, and to all who worship in it.

Peace be to those who enter, and to those who go

out from it.

Peace be to those who love the name of our Lord

Jesus Christ. Amen.
The Chaplain leads three prayers, and the Apostles'
Creed, and the Presiding Bishop leads a prayer.

Now you hear the Chaplain say, "Brethren, pray
for us." And you join the congregation, who answer as
with one joyful and reverent voice.
The Lord prosper you.
We bless you in the name of the Lord.
The grace of our Lord Christ be with you all.
The love of God be with you all.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

It is over. You watch the procession leave the
Chapel, singing the hymn, "Ye holy angels bright."
You wait while those in front of you file out — the
Chapel seats three hundred and seventy-five and more
are here today — and the organ fills the building with
J. S. Bach's "We All Believe in One God." Then you,
too, go out into the bright sun, and you remember
something Bishop Hines said in his sermon,

"And may they go out from this lovely place to
serve in unlovely places, to bring the love and healing
of Christ to other men and women."

Sweet Briar's Chaplains

Apt and Meet

LJ weet Briar's first resident chap-
lain since 1919, the Reverend Frank
H. McClain, chaplain and associate
professor of religion from 1962
through June 1966, has spent the
past academic year studying at Cam-
bridge University in England, under
a Danforth Campus Ministry Grant.
Award winners for the grant were
chosen on the basis of professional competence, in-
tellectual promise, religious commitment arid dedi-
cation to the profession of the campus ministry. The
Reverend Mr. McClain's topic for study toward the
doctorate is The Theology and Ethics of Frederick
Denison Maurice.

Although the College shared pride in Mr. McClain's
grant, it said good-bye with particular regret because
the former chaplain would not be able to see the
Memorial Chapel completed and dedicated. An
ardent worker, Mr. McClain had served four years
on the planning committee for the Chapel, and had
been instrumental in many of the accomplishments of
that group. His quick mind was both scholarly and
down-to-earth, and his personality combined dignity
and wit much as he occasionally wore black Bermuda
shorts with a clerical collar — a combination surpris-
ing, and pleasant.

Sweet Briar regretted, too, saying good-bye to Mrs.
McClain, the former Mary Lee McGinnis, '54, whose
warmth and charm made her much sought. She and
the McClain's daughters, Rebecca and Mary Lee, are
at Cambridge, where, because the Reverend Mr.
McClain received also an Episcopal Church Founda-
tion fellowship, they expect to remain a second year
while he continues his studies.

Frank McClain has the B.A. ( 1950) and the M.A.
(1955) degrees from Cambridge University, where
he studied after graduating with a Phi Beta Kappa key
from Yale. In 1952, he received the S.T.B. degree
from General Theological Seminary in New York,
and that same year was ordained by the Right Rev-
erend Edmund P. Dandridge, Bishop of Tennessee.

Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Mr. McClain attended
high school in Memphis. Following his ordination,
he was curate of the Church of the Advent in Nashville
and priest-in-charge of three successive churches in
Tennessee. During World War II he served as an
army sergeant in the Medical Corps in Luzon, Philip-
pine Islands.

^Jweet Briar's second resident
chaplain since 1919, the Reverend
Alexander M. Robertson, finds his
pastoral duties different at the Col-
lege from those at St. Paul's Church
in Lynchburg, where he was eight
^m iK^K^ ^ years rector before his collegiate ap-
g^ -^ ^^^B pointment the beginning of past aca-
■■-'>' ^^HHB demic year. The difference is caused
by a homogeneous community for whom ready-made
answers will not do, and the Reverend Mr. Robert-
son finds the community as stimulating as the com-
munity finds him a concerned friend.

"You can be awfully superficial about these stu-
dents," he says, "and accept the blase attitude, the
sophomore's wisdom, as the reality. Yet the students
are really looking for something. They long to have
some one who is interested in them."

In addition to holding services each Sunday and
chapel twice a week, Mr. Robertson shows this inter-
est through his availability for individual counseling
and through his invaluable assistance to such student
projects as Religious Emphasis Week. One such proj-
ect this past year involved not just Sweet Briar but
also Randolph-Macon Women's College and Lynch-
burg College, in a series of ecumenical discussions
at Father Judge Mission.

A native of Pittsburgh who attended the university
there, Mr. Robertson came to his vocation through
his avocation. He loved music from childhood, and
while a sales and quality control engineer with the
Harbison Walker Refractories Company gave evening
concerts of folk music, singing in costume with an
accompanist. He conducted rehearsals for the Pitts-
burgh Savoyards, and became an Episcopalian
through a choir. He also became an accomplished
organist.

Because of this experience he was made a chap-
lain's assistant for administration and music when
he entered the Navy during World War II. A year and
a half after his discharge — spent directing music at
Fork Union Military Academy — he entered the Vir-
ginia Episcopal Seminary. He was ordained in 1950.

Before going to St. Paul's in Lynchburg, he was
rector of St. Luke's in Alexandria, a Seminary-spon-
sored mission where he worked while a student. While
rector of St. Luke's, whose membership had grown
to seven hundred sixty by 1964, Mr. Robertson taught
speech at the Seminary.

(I5nar j-^citcheS

from President Blair Both

Annual Meeting June 5

On Saturday as I drove through the Sweet
Briar gates for at least the thirtieth time since 1962
(when my daughter began her freshman year), I
knew that for some of you it was the first time
since graduation that you had driven through. To
some the gates are different, the sign is new, but to
all the entrance and drive remain a familiar sight
as you approach the College. The sight has always
been a thrill for me and as I enter the campus I
reahze that Sweet Briar is just as lovely as I knew
it would be and as I hope it will always be.

I am privileged, as are 7,800 other alumnae to
be a member of the Alumnae Association and in a
number of different ways we try to contribute to
the maintenance of Sweet Briar's fine tradition and
to the development of its fascinating future.

It is a well-known fact that it is the mark of a
good administrator to do as little as possible and
get everyone else to do as much as possible! How-
ever, as President of the Alumnae Association, I
trust I do not shirk my responsibilities and I hope
I haven't overworked the Executive Secretary or the
Board members — I also hope they haven't felt time
hanging heavy on their hands.

Sweet Briar has added to its beauty with a new
chapel, a new science building and a new library
wing, but it lacks the endowment strength of many
of the other women's colleges. The annual giving
of the Alumnae Association helps support the schol-
arship program and faculty salaries which we hope
will keep and attract the best professors. We are
proud of the growth in annual giving, but we have
\a long way to go to reach the percentage partici-
pation which some of our counterparts can boast.

This year the committee of the Executive
Board which deserves special praise is that of the
Regional Chairmen. Under the capable direction
of Ann Colston Leonard, the First Vice President,
our entire regional set-up has been studied, re-
vamped, and generally overhauled. All this she has
managed to accomplish along with the appearance
of Ethan Allen Leonard who at six months is fast
learning to take Sweet Briar in his stride.
<. The dedication of the beautiful Sweet Briar
Chapel brought a number of alumnae back to cam-
pus — I only wish all of you could have been on
hand to take part in that dignified and impressive
service which the Reverend Mr. Robertson, our

Chaplain, conducted with the utmost ease. Dr. Max-
ine Garner, Professor of Religion, and all of her
committee deserve praise, too, for coordinating the
entire week-end program and for managing to en-
tice the "top brass" of the ecclesiastical world to
our campus.

The alumnae have every right to be proud of
the students in college who not only planned but
raised the money to sponsor TEMPO, a seminar on
contemporary thought in arts: literature, etc. Edward
Albee, John Updike, Art Buchwald and several
others ignited the imagination and aroused the
thinking of the student body in a most exciting way.

Our Travelling Faculty program is off the
ground. Several clubs have already availed them-
selves of the opportunity of bringing a Sweet Briar
professor into their community. The Wilmington,
Delaware Club raised over $900 for Committee to
Rescue Italian Art when they invited Miss Eleanor
Barton to lecture on "Florentine Art, Then and
Now". Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that
the Sweet Briar community also raised several
thousand dollars in one evening for the flood
damage in Florence. I have high hopes that con-
tinuing education for Sweet Briar Alumnae will be
carried on through Alumnae Clubs sponsoring pro-
grams featuring our professors.

We have continued the custom of inviting the
Seniors to a dinner with the Executive Board dur-
ing our February meeting. This seems to meet with
enthusiasm.

In April, the Executive Secretary and I attended
the third meeting of the Presidents and Executive
Secretaries of the Alumnae Associations of eight
women's colleges at Connecticut College. This was
initiated by Sweet Briar in September 1965 as a
means of sharing ideas and problems with other
colleges and has proved most beneficial to all of us.

And so we move ahead — the Bulb Project
grows, the Alumnae Representatives continue to
aid and abet the Admissions Office, the Magazine
has gone from three to four issues, and some of us
wonder how we have managed with the smallest
staff of almost any women's college of our posture
and size!

My thanks to all of you for the work you do,
the money you raise, and the heartfelt concern you
have for Sweet Briar College.

nominations
sought

bulb project
passes $100,000

Do you know an alumna who is enthusiastic
about Sweet Briar? Maybe she would like to put
her zeal to work as a member of the Executive
Board of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Association. To
give all Sweet Briar Alumnae an opportunity in
selecting this Board, the Nominating Committee
invites you to submit names of prospective candi-
dates to serve on the 1968-70 Board.

The entire Board, which meets at the College
three times a year, is elected biennially to act as
the governing body of the Alumnae Association.
It consists of the officers — President, 1st Vice Presi-
dent (Clubs), 2nd Vice President (Reunion and Coun-
cil), and Secretary; Chairman of Standing Commit-
tees — Fund, Nominating, Alumnae Representative,
Bulb, and Bequest; ten Regional Chairmen and
several members-at-large.

Each board member has specific responsibilities
throughout her term of office as well as the im-
portant task of participating in all deliberations and
decisions concerning alumnae activities. She should
have qualities of leadership, sound judgment tem-
pered by an open mind, dedication to a task under-
taken and, most important, loyalty to and interest
in Sweet Briar College.

The nominees will be presented in the Spring
of 1968 on a single slate. This is YOUR chance to
present qualified alumnae for consideration by the
Nominating Committee. Any former Sweet Briar
student is eligible. The committee wishes to have
the widest range of candidates — representative of
all age groups and geographical areas — from which
to draw the final slate.
Nominating Committee:

Nancy Pesek Rasenberger '51, Chairman

"Pat" Whitford Allen '35

Dorothy Keller Iliff '26

Sara Ann McNlullen Lindsey '47

Bea Dingwell Loos '46

Joanne Holbrook Patton '52

Gretchen Armstrong Redmond '55

Edith Brainerd Walter '42

Please give this your immediate and thoughtful con-
sideration and mail your suggestions by October 1,
1967, to Mrs. George Walter, 4210 43rd St., N.W.,
Washington, D.C., 20016.

Name.

Xlass-

Address.

Qualifications-

Final figures on the most successful year of
the fabulous bulb project will be published in the
next issue of the Alumnae Magazine. To date the
sales have reached the amazing figure of $103,377.
Congratulations to all, especially to Katherine
Guerrant Fields, Bulb Chairman.

Special InteresL
Suggested By

official ballot

Sweet Briar Alumnae Association

In accordance with the constitution of the
Alumnae Association, the Executive Board has se-
lected for your consideration a candidate for the
Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar College. The
name of this candidate was published in the Spring
1967 issue of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine.
It was the privilege of members to add names to
the proposed slate, under conditions set forth in the
constitution, by June 27, 1967. Since no names were
sent to the office of the Executive Secretary by
that date, this ballot is presented.

Please mark and- sign the ballot and return it
to the Alumnae Office before September 30, 1967.
Members of the Alumnae Association consist of
any former Sweet Briar students.

FOR ALUMNA MEMBER OF THE BOARD
OF OVERSEERS

Juliet Halliburton, '35 (Mrs. Oscar Weaver Burnett)
Greensboro, North Carolina

Member of the Executive Board of the Sweet
Briar Alumnae Association, 1958-64; chairman of
Region IV, 1958-60; first vice-president, 1960-62;
president of the Alumnae Association and ex-officio
member of the Board of Overseers, 1962-64; former
class fund agent; Greensboro area chairman for
Development Program, 1954; bulb chairman for
Greensboro Club, 1966-67.

SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
OfRcial Ballot

n i vote for the candidate named for alumna
member of the Board of Overseers.

Name-
Class_

class notes

1917

Class Secretary: Rachel Lloyd Holton
(Mrs. Hoyt S.) 2318 Densmore Dr.,
Toledo, Ohio 43606
Fund Agent: Rachel Lloyd Holton
(Mrs. Hoyt S.) 2318 Densmore, Dr.,
Toledo, Ohio 43606

June 4th and 5th were two perfect unforgettable days for
the nine members of the class of 1917 who came back for
Reunion. To those of you who were not able to come, we
wish you could have been with us. Ruth McUravy Logan
came from California; Inez Skillem Reller came from Boise,
Idaho. Polly Bissell Ridler and husband Earl, Elsie Palmer
Parkhurst and her husband Ellsworth, arrived at Faculty
Row just as Hoyt and I did. Elsie is just as pretty and
peppy as ever. They were going home to grandchildren's
graduations .. . . they have a wonderful time with their
two sons and two daughters — and 16 grandchildren!
Bertha was the same gracious friendly person she always
has been. Losing Ben was a terrible blow, of course, but
she carries on gallantly.

We took over Faculty House #1 which made us feel
right at home, remembering Dr. Harley's office there, and
Miss Sparrow and Miss Gay and Miss Mattie. Dorothy
Crammer Croyder and Jane Henderson roomed together in
one room. Dorothy arrived expecting to be called to
Washington as her daughter was expecting twins momen-
tarily . . . the joys of grandmotherhood! Jane made it this
year since she has retired from her position as headmistress
at St. Christophers. She had just returned from a trip to
Europe — in fact, followed the revolution into Greece! Elsie
Palmer and her husband. Polly and Earl, Hoyt and I com-
pleted the second floor. Downsfairs Skilly and Ruth Mcllravy
had Carrie Sharpe Sanders and her husband to watch over
them. Ruth was on her way up to Tarrytown to visit her old
home.

Skilly dubbed us the Nifty Fifties — we may not have
been nifty but we surely enjoyed reminiscing and laughing
over all our foolish youth. Constance Krieg surprised us all
by' arriving Sunday night and we were delighted to have
her with us. She said she kept busy doing social service
work.

By the way, our oak in the circle is a beautiful tree
and a real joy. It was all great fun, and now, here's to
our 55th I

1918

Class Secretary: Elizabeth Lowman

Hall (Mrs. Asaph B.) Villager _Apts.,

715 Watkins Road, Horseheads,"N. Y.

14845

Fund Agent: Margaret McVey, 2512

Monument Ave., Richmond, Va. 23220

Catherine Marshall Shuler wrote after the holidays that
they had been seeing Imogene Burch Schuneman and her
husband in Sarasota. Florida. The Shulers spend most of
the year down there, returning to San Francisco for the
Summer.

Dorothy Harrison visited us last September before re-
turning to her Palm Beach home. We toured the Corning
Class Center. Two of our friends had cocktail parties on
successive days, so, without any effort on my part, she
saw many of the people she'd met over the years as well
as meeting new ones.

On her card at Christmas, Mary Virginia Crabbs Shaw
wrote that Iloe Bowers Joel had been widowed early in
the year. They've been neighbors in Crawfordsville.

We see Dorothy Wallace nearly everytime we go to
Ellicott City, Maryland to visit our son and family. During
our February visit she drove over from Frederick to lunch
with us and be entertained by our three- year -old grand-
son. Dorothy had been battling a germ but looked fine and
was full of news.

As for the Halls, 1966 saw us travelling 11,000 miles

in driving to California and back with, a short visit by
plane to Hawaii while in the West. It was a gorgeous ex-
perience, finished off by spending our anniversary in
Rome, N. Y. where we enjoy harness racing each year.

This year we are planning no major tour. Probably a
swing to New England to see friends and relatives and allow
my husband to seek some ancestors!

Though we are enjoying a small apartment, we have
excellent motels very near and would be happy to shelter
our friends, as we do our family, in one of them.

Don't forget 1968 will be our fiftieth re-union. I'll be
writing you.

1919

Class Secretary: Elizabeth Eggleston,
Green Level, Hampden-Sydney, Va.
Fund Agent: Caroline Sharpe Sanders
(Mrs. Marion S.) 585 Withers Road,
Wytheville, Va.

It win be of interest to all members of 1919 to hear that
Carrie's son, Richard S. Sanders was married to Carolyn
Frazier on May 13th at Christ Church, Charlottesville.

Carrie was the sole member of our class to return for
Commencement, but her husband the genial and ever-
welcome Sandy, came along for support. They stayed at
Number 1, Faculty Row, the Infirmary of our day, and
consorted mainly with those of 1917 who had returned for
their 50th with whatever husbands were available. Whether
the ghosts of Doctor Harley, Miss Mattie, Miss Gay and
other notables of those far-off years peeped in, Carrie
didn't say.

The reunion picnic-Oldsters Division was held at the
porch of Mount Saint Angelo through the courtesy of Mrs.
Barrow, the present owner. Thoughts of the dear Walkers
and the warm and generous at-homes that meant so much
to us then, had grateful place in the consciousness of all
who were present. The two Walker sisters, frail, but eagerly
welcoming the old girls back, made the effort to come.

Bertha, of course, presided and was the focal point of
hospitality. Those who had known her husband, Ben, were
grieved that he is no longer there.

You will be amused to hear that I am taking a course
in beginners drawing at Longwood this summer. It is one
of those "Hurry-Ups" in which one struggles to assimilate in
a few weeks what would fill to overflowing several months.
At present my tongue is hanging out. I am stunned at the
ability, staying power and inclusiveness of this over-malign-
ed younger generation.

None of you ever write me news, so what can I do?
But I remain hopeful. Elizabeth

1921

Class Secretary: Ruth Geer Boice (Mrs.
William B.) 2553 Glenwood Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio 43610
Fund Agent: Elizabeth Shoop Dixon
(Mrs. G. Brownning) 1029 Martland
Avenue, Suffolk, Va. 23434

The following notes were sent in by Maynette Rozelle
Stephenson:

Just a year ago some of the lucky ones were meeting at
our reunion. We had a wonderful, warm, nostalgic time
and were sorry you all couldn't be there.

When I reached home, I found my 93- year- old father
very ill. He died in August and we went to South Bend
for services. While there, I saw Mad Olnly who looked
great after recovering from an illness. She and Elliott have
a beautiful home, big enough to take care of visiting grand-
children.

Joe Ahara MacMullan and her cheirming daughter spent
two days with us at the beginning and ending of a Carib-
bean cruise from Port Everglades, which is in Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla. It was fun to see Joe again. She still keeps her home
in Chapel Hill.

Dotty Job Robinson embarked from here on June 17th
for her home in England.

Penny just returned from a cruise to the South Seas.
Now what could Penny find to do in Pago-Pago?

Our younger daughter, Virginia, is recovering quickly
from a serious operation.

Do write when you can, to Ruth Geer Boice, our sec-
retary, with news of yourselves.

1924

Class Secretary: Florence Westgate
Kraffert (Mrs. Benjamin F., Jr.) 214
W. Spruce St., Titusville, Pa.
Fund Agent: Martie Lobingier Lusk
(Mrs. W. W.) 1201 Shady Avenue.
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Due to a new system no class notes of '24 have been
published since the 1966 Summer Magazine and I have news
that goes back to June 1966.

From Youngstown, Ohio, Betty WoUcott Stanier writes:
"I have 3 children and 10 1/2 grandchildren. After my hus-
band's death two years ago, I sold our home and moved
into an apartment. Have emphysema so am curtailed in
my activities."

From Knoxville, Anita Wilson Campbell writes: "We're
fortunate in having all our family living here. Roe is still
actively engaged in his hobby of tennis. Our older son,
John, is an ear, nose and throat specialist. He and Janie
have 4 adorable children. Our other son, Bob, is an attor-
ney. He and Ruth have 3 children. Everyone is busy in
church and civic work and some politics."

From Mary Claire Petty Hardwick in Los Angeles comes
the following news: "Things are going very nicely with
all of us, my husband and my 2 children and 7 grand-
children. My daughter and her husband. Dr. Colen
Campbell, Jr., have returned from a sabbatical year on the
Riviera. We visited them and their two youngsters twice.
Our son is in the advertising business. He has his own
company. I still play the flute and do some teaching. This
added to being active in church affairs and travelling
extensively keeps me busy and happy."

Last June '66 Gladys Woodward Hubbard wrote: "We
have some happy news. Our 1st grandchild was born May
18th in St. Louis. Her name is Sarah Thayer Hubbard and
her parents are Mr. & Mrs. L. Marsden Hubbard, Jr. Our
son, who is a teacher, will bring his family to Conn., for
a six weeks visit with us this summer. Never having had a
daughter I expect to have a wonderful time with this
little girl."

From Marian Swanell Wright, whose husband is the
Episcopal Bishop of Nevada, comes the following: "We have
the usual assortment of grandchildren and I am kept busy
running a kind of ecclesiastic motel for visiting Bishops,
priests, and deacons. Our summers are spent at a church
camp at Glenbrook, Camp Galilee, where I am teaching a
course in religious drama. S.B.C. makes a fair showing
among the wives of Bishops of the Episcopal Church. At
the last count there were 3 of us, Warwick Brown of
Ark.; Helen Vander Horst of Tenn., and myself." (Also,
Alice Jones Taylor of Maryland. Ed.)

In Jan. Muriel McLeod Searby will be in Caracas visit-
ing one of her sons and on May 1st will go to Greece
and Italy.

Bob and Anne Mountcastle Gamble, Shiney's daughter
and son-in-law, and their two little girls returned from
Spain in the Spring. They have added since then to their
family, a baby boy, Robert Spurr Gamble.

A newsy communication from Elsie Wood von Maur in
Jan. says: "We have just returned from Aspen, Col. where
we spent the holidays. About 125 from Davenport were
there. Loads of fun 'till I developed bronchitis. My
daughter Alice and her husband and 4 young ones were
all there skiing. Young Richard, the 3rd, arrived Jan. 22nd,
our second grandson but the first to carry our name, so
big celebration. The mother is Eleanor Harned Arp's niece.
They have two daughters. I am still busy as orchestra
manager of one of the twelve oldest symphony orchestras
in the country. We sell over 5000 season tickets, quite a
record for a community of this size. Eleanor Harned Arp
is fine and soon goes to their home in Port Royal, Fla.
for several weeks. Dodie von Maur Crampton is as pretty
as ever and her family grows by leaps and bounds, lots
of grandchildren." Elsie also says she and I just missed
each other in Fla. a while ago. Wouldn't that have been
fun, to meet after all these years?

Genevieve Elston Moody writes: "We have recently
retired. My husband is now Rector Emeritus of Grace Epis-
copal Church, Muncie, Ind. We came here as bride and
groom 40 years ago. We have a lovely new house over-
looking the golf course, and are looking forward to a

happy time. We have four married daughters, and 11
grandchildren."

I wonder if I'm recognizable? My hair isn't very gray,
but there seem to be other changes I won't go into. If I
don't put on my trifocals, I don't see all the wrinkles and
rolls. We are in Pinehurst now for the winter and if any
24'ers are hereabouts I'd love to see them.

To Kay Klumph McGuire goes our deepest sympathy.
Her husband Fritz, died suddenly last September. His
death was caused by a hornet's sting. All of us who at-
tended our 40th reunion will always remember how much
pleasure Fritz, there with Kay, added to the occasion.
We thought he was fun and fine and can see how he
deserved all the honors accorded him in eulogy in the
Cleveland papers.

1925

Class Secretary: Cordelia Kirkendall
Barricks (Mrs. Arthur A.) 1057 Walker
Ave., Oakland, California 94610
Fund Agent: Mary Dowds Houck (Mrs.
Lewis D.) 23 Hodge Rd., Princeton,
N. J.

Romayne Schpoley Ferenbach was in San Francisco last
Halloween, enroute to Japan. She looked so young and
pretty. Our time together was far too brief, but we tried
to cover a lot over cocktails and dinner at the "Fairmont
Hotel." She loved that trip. I was saddened to have her
tell me that Ella Polk Brough had died so suddenly in
New York in 1966. She was only one year at Sweet Briar,
but that was long enough to win our hearts.

I read in the "Oakland Tribune" that Virginia Cun-
ningham Brookes, class of 35, had gained a daughter when
her son Lawrence Valentine Brookes married in December
of 1966. Lawrence is a "Cal" graduate and is now in Boalt
Hall, the University's School of the Law.

Eleanor Miller Patterson has 7 grandchildren including
twin girls. They were all with Eleanor and Brown for
Christmas.

Ruth Mcllravy Logan, '17 went from her home in Pied-
mont, Calif, to Sweet Briar for her 50th reunion. A card,
showing the Refectory, reported she was so happy that
she had made the trip.

Talked to Elizabeth Franke Balls '13, in April, who
lives in Berkeley, Calif. She wanted me for lunch and bridge,
but I had to decline, because I was on the committee
putting on our Episcopal Chancel Chapter's annual card
party.

I am happy to report my husband's good recovery from
two operations last Fall. He had been in so much pain
from arthritis but after the surgery the infection auto-
matically cleared up so we are again in circulation and
travelling.

We have been home 10 days from a week in Penn-
sylvania and a 26 -day cruise on the Grace Line's "Santa
Maria" from Newark to Lima, Peru and return. Never
have we had more fun than on that cruise. There were
80 passengers, all stockholders, and we were one happy
family. One of our table mates was from Cincinnati and
she promised she would telephone Jane Becker Clippinger
and give her and John our best.

Arthur and I flew to Pittsburgh, Pa. on May 5th. We
stayed overnight. The next morning we drove to Harrisburg
to see my niece and her family. My cousins from Atlantic
City came to see us, too. Lancaster was our next stop. There
we saw Sue Hager Rohrer, husband Dick, and about ten
of the friends I've known since Sweet Briar days. That was
a gala reunion. Sue is still gorgeous. Dick is "retired" so
now only works from 8:30 to 6. He is peppy and amazing.
We didn't see any of the 4 children, nor 9 grandchildren.

When I was in Pittsburgh I phoned Ruth Taylor Frank-
lin, and received no answer, but I was fortunate in finding
Martha Lobingier Lusk 1924 at home. We had a grand tele-
phone chat. She told me Ruth is a great gal, always doing
for others and was baby sitting at her daughter's home
while she and her husband were gallivanting in England.

From Lancaster we went to Wilkes-Barre, my natal
locale. Enroute we stopped at Danville to see friends I
knew from the good ol' days when I visited my grandmother.

We stayed with my niece in Wilkes-Barre. My sister
and husband hadn't been well so we thought it better not
to stay with them, but they were able to join in all the

festivities the 3 days we were there. My sister and niece
gave a tea for me which enabled me to see many friends.
I got a glimpse of Lindsay Coon Robinson, '49. She was
doing a chauffeuring job for her daughter, as my niece too
was doing, and I was just along for the ride.

Arthur and I went over to Pocono mountains and went
through the campus at Lafayette which is my father's
and brother's alma mater. We stopped in Short Hills, N. J.
and then on to Newark from where we started our ship
cruise.

June 8th we were back from our cruise and home (via
air) the same day.

1926

Class Secretary: Ruth Abell Bear
Fund Agent: Marietta Darsie

Although it has been a long time since reunion. I must
at least mention that there were 15 of us there and that
we had a wonderful time. And, too, I must thank all of
you who took time to answer the questionnaire to make
our scrap-book a great success. Kitty Blount Anderson is
our new president, and Marietta Darsie, our Fund agent.
They were elected at our Class picinc, held at Mary Lee
McGinnis McLain's. Mary Lee is Rebecca Ashcraft Warren's
daughter and wife of the young man who was Chaplain at
S.B.C. They are both delightful, and I am sure are sorely
missed on campus.

Since there has been 5 years of silence concerning our
class, I shall plunge in with some of the information you
all sent me last spring.

Ellen Newell Bryan and her husband are living in
Clemson, N. C. where he is Vice-President of the University.
They have 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Wright is on
the Board of Overseers at S.B.C. so they are frequent
visitors there.

Dorothea Reinburg Fuller's husband died in China at
the end of World War 11. He was a graduate of U.S.M.A.
class of '25. They have 3 children: Dorothea graduated
from S.B.C. in 1953 and is living in Lynchburg with Dottie.
She has been with the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa and Bonn
and was also a secretary with the Army in Heidelberg.
William graduated from V.M.I, in 1958 and is now in
Tokyo teaching English for the N.C.R. and studying at the
Kodokan. Elizabeth graduated from Hollins in 1955 and is
married to Richard Davis, living in Wake Forest, N.C.
There are 3 grandchildren, and these, plus travel, are
Dottie's chief interests. For 11 years she was with Millners
and became bridal consultant there. She gave it up 4
years ago and now is enjoying her free time.

Margaret Reinhold Mitchell is a full time teacher of
mathematics in Wilmington, Del. High School. She has an
M.A. degree from Bryn Mawr College and has done grad-
uate work at Columbia.

Marietta Darsie retired from the Cleveland schools 10
years early; taught visual-audio education in the night and
summer school classes at Rockford College in 111. and is
now a legal secretary in Washington, Pa. She is a Lt.
Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, having served in
Washington, D.C. during World War II and having been a
member of the Reserve unit in Cleveland.

As you all know, she is now our Fund Agent, so do
drop her a note — with a check in it.

Dorothy Keller Iliff and her husband William have 2
daughters — Bamby, who is working in -<he Rehabilitation
Department of Good Will Industries in Denver; and Suzy,
who graduated from Denison University.

Don't forget that in four more years another BIG re-
union is coming up — so take your vitamins and plan to be
there I

1928

Class Secretary: Betty Moore Schill-
ing (Mrs. Arthur Y.) 1011 Childs Ave.,
Drexel Hill, Pa. 19026
Fund Agent: Virginia Van Winkle
Morlidge (Mrs. John B., Jr.) 318 Sum-
mit Lane, Ft. Mitchell; Covington, Va.
41011

Shortly after I mailed my notes I received a nice letter
from Kitty Leadbeater Bloomer who told me all about her
trip to London to show her daffodils.

Last August Art and son Bill and I went to Charleston
to visit son Fred and his wife. We had a very gay time.
Spent a delightful day with Betty Austin Kinloch. But oh!
that heat. The newspapers said that it was hotter than
Hell (Mich.) — 95 the five days we were there.

Marion Jayne Berguido's fourth daughter Joy was mar-
ried in September to Keith B. Davis and now lives in
N. Y. Marion will soon be making her annual trip to
Buffalo to visit June Berguido James '58. Fifth daughter Jill
graduated from S.B.C. in June.

Libby Jones Shands visited her father in St. Louis in
Oct. She said that Julia Wilson was in Alexandria and is
quite a gal. In the last 10 years she has learned to
play the piano and to fly an airplane in addition to carry-
ing on a business. She has also broken both legs.

We all send our sympathy to Lib Joy Porter who lost
her husband in Sept.

Muggsie Nelms Locke is again president of the Mobile
Historic Society which keeps her very busy. And she's
always dashing back and forth to Selma and Montgomery
to see daughters and grands.

I received many nice Xmas cards from classmates but
very little news. Bonnie Matthews Wisdom had seen El
Branch Cornell in the fall. El looked great after an opera-
tion and her yearly trip to Europe. Kay Meyer Mauchel
was wintering in St. Thomas as usual. And our hard-
working Fund Agent, Rip Van Winkle Morlidge, always
has time for holiday greetings in the midst of getting out
Fund letters. I do hope that you all answered her call.

It's time to start laying the groundwork for our 40th
reunion in '68. With the new setup for class notes I'll have
only two more chances to remind you to begin planning —
this summer and next spring. Please send me your ideas
for the big celebration.

1929

class Secretary: Sara Callison Jamison
(Mrs. John R.) 616 Ridgewood Dr.,
West Lafayette, Ind.
Fund Agent: Mary Archer Bean Eppes
(Mrs. James V.), 447 Heckwelder
Place, Bethlehem, Pa. 18018

It's been a long time since my news last summer.

Jamie and I spent a half day at Sweet Briar in May.
While on the campus we had a little visit in what was for
us, the first look at the new alumnae quarters in the
old Book Shop. It is most attractive. And it was nice to
be greeted so pleasantly by everyone in the office. We
had lunch with Gert Prior at the Boxwood Inn, after which
she took us on a tour of the campus. We saw the new
Science Building, the new library wing, and the new
chapel. The chapel fits into its location so beautifully
(between Grammer and Randolph) that it looks as if it
had always been there. We were simply thrilled with both
the new and the old and with the beauty of the place.
Better start making plans now for our fortieth reunion
next year. We have lots of lovely things "to come home to.'"

In Lynchburg I had a long telephone conversation with
Amelia Hollis Scott. She is still more than busy with two
teen-agers. We discovered that both of our oldest children
live in Summit, N. J.

While in Southern Pines I talked to Sims Massie Rand
who was visiting her husband's mother there. I called June
Tillman McKenzie and Eleanor Duval Spruill, hoping that
we might drive down to see them, but June and her hus-
band were leaving on a trip and Eleanor was in Europe.
Amelia Scott told me that Eleanor is recognized as one
of the finest water-color artists in the South.

In the June issue of the National Geographic Maga-
zine, Nicholas Clinch has written a fascinating article . on
his recent mountain climbing achievement. On April 3rd he
received a medal and gave a lecture for the National Geo-
graphic Society. We share a little in your pride, Virginia
Lee.

Mary Archer Bean Eppes is coming to Lafayette in July
for a church meeting. We are looking forward to seeing

her and we will try to get going on some plans for next June.

* • •

The following notes were sent in by Mary Archer Bean
Eppes:

One of the things I have enjoyed most about being
Fund Agent is serving on the Alumnae Council and going
back to Sweet Briar for Council meetings. It has been such
fun to stay with Gert Prior and room with Lisa Guigon
Shinberger these past two Octobers. It is hard to believe
that Lisa's lovely daughter, Mary Baird, graduated from
SBC in June, I've known her since she was a classmate of
my niece, Mary Archer Emery, at St. Margarets in Tappa-
hannock, and she is one of my favorites among the younger
generation.

Last year when my husband Jimmy came down for the
last part of the Antique's Forum in Williamsburg, we had a
delightful luncheon with Dr. Pannell. Jimmy has always been
a buff of photography, but lately he has spent more time
and money on equipment and is very keen about taking pic-
tures of special places and special people! When we were
asked to come and stay at Sweet Briar House so that Jimmy
could take pictures of the new Memorial Chapel, I was so
thrilled at the prospect several of our friends thought we
were invited to, stay at the White House! Anyway, I'm sure
staying at Sweet Briar House was more fun and we loved
every minute and were entranced with the beauty of the new
Memorial Chapel and its surroundings.

It has been a delight to attend the Williamsburg Antiques
Forum for several years. We are always meeting people from
Sweet Briar. Pattie Moncure Drewry and her husband Tom
and their son and daughter live in a quaint old house on the
Duke of Gloucester St. Ann Harrison Shepherd and her hus-
band, John L. Lewis, and sons live in an old house on
Indian Springs Road that was transplanted board-by-board
from Gloucester County! Their new neighbors are Maria
Bemiss and Henry Hoar, who has retired from U. S. Steel
in Pittsburgh and now has the interesting position of cura-
tor of rare books at William and Mary. He took us to a
magnificent display of Bibles and illuminated manuscripts
which he had just assembled for a most dramatic presenta-
tion. Their oldest daughter, Susie, graduated from HoUins
and was to be married on June 10th.

Last December Jimmy and I stayed with Katy and
Nancy Coe in their new apartment in Englewood, N. J. when
we attended the wedding of our nephew, Bennett Bean, who
married an exquisite young Chinese girl, Cathy Bao. Bennett's
parents are my brother Billy and Abigail Shepard, SBC '33.
If you have not read "Eighth Moon" and want to know about
the life of a young girl brought up in Communist China, this
is the story of Cathy's sister "San San" as told to her older
sister on tapes soon after her arrival in this country. Ben-
nett is very interested in ceramics and teaches fine arts at
Wagner College, Staten Island.

Margaret Moncure Johnson writes that she and Francis
have six grandchildren. Kay Smith Boothe has given up the
name "Gypsy" now that she has four grandchildren. I tried
to give up "Beanie" to no avail! We have two granddaugh-
ters, Elizabeth Martin and Susan Bennett, ages 5 and I1/2.
I took care of them in Cleveland for a week last fall when
Bennett and Cynthia attended medical meetings in Florida.
Bennett has just served two years as an army captain on the
staff hi Walter Reed Hospital. He received special citations,
etc. for the research he has been doing in malaria. He is now
serving as a senior resident in internal medicine. .

Copie wrote last year that her husband Paul had died.
Her children are scattered in Germany, Detroit and Pasa-
dena.

Betty Bryan Stockton writes that she sees some Sweet
Briar friends in the summer at Roaring Gap, N. C. They have
just built a new house at Ponte Vedra Beach where her
daughter and family live.

I enjoyed hearing from Kathleen Firestone Carruthers
who lives in Monongahela, Pa. She writes, "We have lived
here for ten years and like it very much, but my heart still
belongs in Columbus, Ohio. Our son David lives there and
we have four grandchildren."

Helen Weitzmann Bailey returned the latter part of May
to New Vernon, N. J. after four wonderful years in France.
1 have enjoyed staying with Mary Gochnauer Dalton (her
husband is now Dean of Library Science at Columbia Uni-
versity) in their apartment high above Riverside Drive. It's
filled with elegant antiques. I'll miss these meetings I've
been attending for the past six years now that I am no long-
er on the national board of "Church Women United" or serv-
ing in the Division of International Affairs of the National
Council of Churches.

My most strenuous job is also over as I am no longer
president of the Bethlehem Branch of the AAUW. We had
our Division meeting here this spring and I enjoyed seeing
Marietta Darcie from Washington, Pa. at this time. At the
end of '67 I'll be going off our Diocesan Board of Episcopal
Church Women, after serving as Ecumenical Relations Chair-
man for six years.

We see Dorothea Paddock Suber once in a while. She
last visited us in South Bristol, Maine several summers ago.
She still has that spark and has not lost her sense of hu-
mor! She works in NYC as secretary and executive director
of the Independent Citizens Research Foundation. Her dau-
ghter Laurian married a professor at Connecticut University.

Our eldest son Jamie has a nice bachelor apartment in
Washington. He is working in the Department of Commerce
in International Regional Economics where he uses his back-
ground as a linguist to advantage. He has not taken any
recent trips to Moscow with the Yale Russian Chorus, but
when they have an "extra special concert" they still ask
him to come and sing with them.

By the time these class notes are published our
Fund drive will have ended. It has been frustrating to write
so many of you in recent years and still have our class so
low on the totem pole. Did you read the back cover of the
last Alumnae Magazine? How about the Golden Stairs? Will
you join me as a member of this circle? We all have great
demands on our time, talent and treasure, but don't we care
enough to put Sweet Briar on this list? Our fortieth reunion
comes in two years. Let's see how much we can improve
our low average as a class.

Miss Meta Glass always said she was a member of our
class, as she first came to Sweet Briar when we were fresh-
men. We all have varied nostalgic remembrances. Some of
us recall Sunday evenings in her "parlor," when she read
aloud to us. There are many recollections that leave an
ache in our hearts. Did you ever hear her read Tennyson?

At the time my own mother died in June 1965 her best
friend sent me these lines written by Saint Bernard in the
12th Century. They have been of solace to me and I know as
classmates you will join me in feeling that they apply equally
well to "Miss Meta" as we send our deepest sympathy to her
family and friends. "And in truth what reason could there be
in immoderate grief for her, as if her death were not pre-
cious in the sight of the Lord. As if it were not rather a
deliverance from death and a door leading to immortal life,
ought we to sorrow for her whom sorrow can reach no more.
She keeps a jubilee; she celebrates a triumph: she has been
admitted into the joy of her Lord. The happiness we desire
for ourselves we must not envy her whom we love."

1930

Class Secretary: Elizabeth McCrady
Bardwell (Mrs. Robert C), Exeter
Farms, Tangerine, Fla. 32777
Fund Agent: Myra Marshall Brush
(Mrs. Edward V., Jr.) Castle Hill, Lex-
ington, Va. 24450

Conveying sad news is difficult at any time. Coupled
with the budgeting of words that this report necessitates,
how can I express the pangs that each of us must feel,
with our own fond memories of each one, as I announce that
we lost Merry Curtis Loving in July of '66 and Rosalie Faulk-
ner Loving in September of 1966 and Norvell Royer Orgain
in January of this year?

It was a note from Sally Reahard months ago that in-
formed me of the death of Merry Curtis Loving. Before the
next report we hope to have further news of Sally.

Response to cards was gratifying.

Jane Callison Smith writes that with a daughter age thir-
teen she is still in the "car pool, P. T. A. set!"

Teresa Atkinson Greenfield writes "Son John, 2nd Lt.
Marines, is on his way to Vietnam, and son Charles will
graduate from Vanderbilt in June. Both are in the Marines —
otherwise we are fine."

Charlotte Coles Friedman and husband had a trip
around the world and Australia — "some business and some
pleasure." They live on a farm "and I mean farm", and their
recently married daughter and husband live just six miles
away.

Mary Burks Saltz writes "Nothing new" (but just look
at the list of her rewarding activities) "Am still Chairman
Christian Social Concerns Commission of our church, Citi-

2en Chairman for County Council P.T.A. (grandmother in-
terest plus all youngsters) serving on Greater St. Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce sub-committee on Instructional Por-
tion of School Budget, the usual Community door bells for
United Fund, Heart Fund Drive and others. Board of Direct-
ors of Community Service, etc". Last year the St. Pete Bar
Association gave Mary the Liberty Bell Award. Their
younger son is managing one of their stores, and his wife
Karen, and his daughters Kim and Debbie "we enjoy".
Their older son after four years in the Marines went back
to Medical School at Duke, and is now interning in Gaines-
ville, Florida at the University. His wife teaches — she was
with Peace Corps in the Philippines and is Duke graduate.
"They have Eddie III". Mary's husband received a "Hole in
One" trophy last year I

I am looking forward to seeing Liz Copeland Norfleet
now that my daughter #3 will be moving there this summer
with three tiny children and her husband who will be pro-
fessor of law at University of Virginia. Liz writes "I will
be going to England, probably, again to teach in an Ameri-
can summer school (prep) as J did last summer. It is a
great and fascinating experience. Fillmore and I both taught,
and before that, had a month's trip on our own to Portugal,
Spain and France. We may not do so much again this year,
but we shall be teaching and may go a week ahead . . .
to see some of England ... I tearh at St. Anne's School
here."

Helene Beard Huntington, whom I shall be seeing when
I return from four months in San Francisco to my home in
central Florida in May, lives just twenty miles away. She
writes, "My 1966 Christmas cards . . . are still put away
with those for '65 and '64. I hope I'm not forgotten." In my
next report I shall have further news of her. She also
wrote that in McCall's "Sweet Briar made it as having, with
Vassar and Northwestern, "The Best Dressed Girls."

Betty Carnes, another classmate living in Florida, writes,
"I keep busy in an insurance office and usually get to a
Pilot Club Convention during part of my vacation and take
my mother to the beach during another week of vacation.
I do as much community service work as I can through
the Pilot Club and through teaching a sewing class for
little girls at the Girls Club (for underprivileged girls in
Ybor City). These girls and my college-age nephew keep
me current on the younger generation. I enjoyed so much the
2Sth reunion and had hoped to get to the 30th but maybe
I'll make the 40th."

Inspiring and almost breath-taking is just a portion of
Josephine Abernethy Turrentine's activities and citations,
submitted with a full page of the Ledger-Star picturing Jo
as one "of three women revenue officers in the state of
Virginia. She is vice president of the Women's Division,
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce; president of the Quota
Club of Norfolk, first vice president, Norfolk Chapter Ameri-
can Society of Women's Accountants; immediate past
president of the Tidewater Rose Society; Regent of the
Great Bridge Chapter, DAR; and a past president of the
Tidewater Business and Professional Women's Club." In ad-
dition to her many cultural, historical and humanitarian
interests, as well as a married son, married daughter and
three grandchildren, Jo received the following citations
"Elected by the citizens of Norfolk as 'The Outstanding
Career Woman of 1962," By the National Arthritis Founda-
tion, Inc. in 1964 "Outstanding Volunteer Work for the Na-
tional, State and Local Work." She was also honored by the
Women's Division, Norfolk Chamber of Commerce for out-
standing Community Service Work with the presentation
of a Norfolk Mace at 1963 Banquet (the only time such a
presentation has been made to a Norfolk woman). And
in 1964 the citizens of Norfolk elected Josephine Abernethy
Turrentine the "Woman of Accomplishment" for that year."
We congratulate Jo.

1931

Class Secretary: Jean Cole Anderson

(Mrs. George, Jr.) 288 Washington

Ave., Marietta, Ga. 30060

Fund Agent: Polly Swift Calhoun (Mrs.

Frank E.) Coltsfoot Farm, Cornwall,

Conn.

down one coast of Florida and up the other, getting home
in time to greet Split Clark who came for a good visit
in April. We had three weeks of visiting and sightseeing
together. In May, on returning from a few days at the
beach with my daughter and grandson, I was faced with
some vicious storms, one of which toppled a huge tree
that had been put into "tip-top shape" only in January. My
granddaughter, David's little Jennifer, celebrated her first
birthday in June by striking out for herself in a triumphant
duck-waddle. The rest of the month has been an acre of
yard work including aerial attacks on trespassing khudzu.
There ought to be a leash law!

Meanwhile notes and letters from Quinnie Quintard
Bond, Martha Von Briesen, Nancy Worthington and Polly
Swift Calhoun have provided items for the News.

Everyone will regret to learn of Liebe Mac Rae God-
dard's loss of her husband, Stephen, who died on May
20th. She is staying on in their house at 28 Buckwalter
Rd., Audubon, Pa. 19407.

I wish there were room for a complete reprint of
Martha's "Flight Notes from a Magic Carpet", her trip to
Turkey, Iran, India and Nepal last December which she
mentioned in our March class notes.

Now Polly's letter about her and Frank's trip westward
around the world, January to April. Meeting their son, Gor-
don, in Hong Kong, they travelled through the southern
countries, returning with him to his Peace Corps area in
Nepal where they — "walked to many of his district vil-
lages and lived in as 'ethnic' a way as we could wherever
we went." On to northern Turkey to visit another son in
the Peace Corps; to Frankfort, Germany where their mar-
ried son, Ted, is teaching in an international school. All
along their tour from Taiwan to Spain and England, they
visited foreign students and visitors who had spent a total
of 29 months with them in Connecticut. To quote again,
"Because we travelled in the cheapest way, we met the
friendliest people, eager to help us even with only sign
language. If you want to make real friends, carry and
knapsack and walk. We did, miles and miles, and this is
probably why we stayed so healthy I"

Quinnie's letter in Feb., just too late for the March
issue, told of their visit with Stuartie Kelso and Jo Littell
in Santa Rosa last summer when she and Eddie toured
the West, and then a return visit by the Littells when
they came east in July. Quinnie has been "up to my ears"
all winter lining up the benefit auction in June for Boston's
Educational TV channel. Besides all that effort, there were
plans for a June wedding, that of her son, Whitford, to-^
Helen Anne Hagemann of Chestnut Hill, the engagement^'
announced in January.

Alice Barrows Francisco now lives in Thetford. Vt. and
has stopped by with the Bonds when driving her daughter
down to Bradford Junior College not far from them.

1932

Secretary: Susanne Gay Linville (Mrs.
C. Edwin), 135 Underbill Road, Scars-
dale, New York 10583

Somehow June has been lost to me in the confusion
of catching up on duties and troubles neglected since March
when I accepted the invitation of a friend to help her drive

Henrietta Bryan Alphin went back to reunion this
Spring, and I heard that the reunion was a particularly
pleasant one.

But since I was not there I am going to confine myself
to news outside of Sweet Briar.

Bee Stone DeVore is now Mrs. James Moffett and living
in California near Seal Beach. All wishes for happiness,
Bee. She has been teaching in a school for retarded children
and is living near her son who is a testing engineer at
the Douglas Space-Center in Huntington Beach.

Marjorie Ward Cross writes from Wilmington, Delaware
that she doesn't have much news and then goes on with
this report: Her younger son, Ward, is working in Dussel-
dorf. West Germany, after graduating from Guilford Col-
lege last May. George, her oldest son, has moved from
Pennsylvania, where they could visit easily, and settled in
Winnetka, and she and her husband are missing their
three grandchildren.

She and her husband spent three weeks last September
driving through France and northern Italy, getting home
just before the floods. They were sorry they didn't see

Florence again before the trouble. The Wilmington Alumnae
Club worked on a benefit for Florence and raised some
money for CRIA.

She is still working at Wintherthur several days a
week, and that and Board work keep her busy.

As for the Linvilles, we are well, busy and happy. On
weekends our boys race their Ensign on Long Island
Sound. So far they have won one race and I won't men-
tion the ones they have lost, but they have fun.

1936

class Secretary: Elizabeth Morton For-
syth (Mrs. Harry), 3122 Rivermont
Ave., Lynchburg, Va. 24503
Fund Agent: Betty Cocke Winfree
(Mrs. Peyton B., Jr.), 3176 West Ridge
Rd., S.W., Roanoke, Va. 24014

D'Arcy Atwater Perry writes from Maine her son Chris-
topher was married in June. He and Carla are living in
Durham, N. H. where Chris is doing grad work for a
Ph.D. in Chemistry. Second son Robin is a senior at Nor-
wich University and a licensed pilot, "so he flies home
for lunch now and then."

Polly Rich Wiles and her husband went on a 10-week
trip last summer on a British ship. British seamen's strike
messed up Polly's plans to attend reunion, but the Wiles'
had a great time visiting family.

Our sympathy to Mary Virginia Camp Smith, who wrote
that she lost her mother, very suddenly, in July 1966. It
was through Mary Virginia that we learned the sad
news of Marquart Powell Doty's death early in January
this year. Her death was due to some complication follow-
ing heart surgery; it, too, was unexpected, and a shock
and great sorrow to all her classmates. Mary Virginia at-
tended Alumnae Council last fall and saw Betty Cocke
Winfree. Mary Virginia's daughter, Lindsay, graduated from
SBC in June, president of Carson and president of Chung
Mungs. She majored in history of art and spent last sum-
mer in Florence, Italy and Paris. Second daughter, Char-
lotte, was president of her sophomore class and member of
honorary social circle. Son Lee, a 10th grader at Wood-
berry, won his letter in track last year, and was on the
junior football team.

Betty Cocke Winfree is our new Fund Agent. She loves
being a grandmother to two granddaughters: One is Macon's
(SBC '62), the other P. "B., Jr.'s. Peyton likes his work with
the N & W Railroad as Director of Public Relations and
Advertising. Youngest daughter, Penny, SBC '66, is working
toward her masters degree in music.

Elizabeth Pinkerton Scott writes news of her three
boys. Fred graduated from U. Va. this June, having finished
three years with the Marine Corp. Alfred graduated from
Va. last summer and started a 3-year stretch with the
Marines. Strother finished his fourth year of engineering
at Trinity. Pinkie had lunch with Miss Jessie Fraser and
Chic Gregory when they came through Charlottesville.
Frances (Chic) wrote me about that lunch too, and about
her interest in the Jessie M. Fraser Fund to aid in the
establishment of a chair in history to honor Miss Fraser.
Chic says she hopes our class will want to help!

Martha Williams Tim's youngest, Ann, is a freshman
at Hood, and the oldest, Ellen, a senior at the Eliot-Pearson
School at Tufts Univ. in Medford, Mass. Fred is in his last
year at Carnegie Tech's Graduate School of Industrial
Administration.

Jane Shelton Bowers now has more chillun than I can
keep up with! She and Mary Poindexter Willingham and
husband Windy came to Sweet Briar for Parents weekend
last fall but I missed them. Jane and Ruth Robinson
Marshall had a wonderful time at wedding last summer
of Chloe Frierson Fort's daughter Chloe.

Ruth Robinson Marshall sent back her card with love,
but no news.

Kin Carr Baldwin writes from Norfolk that daughter
Stuart and her husband, Andrew, who is attached to the
British Embassy, and baby son came all the way from
Rome to visit, so naturally Kin didn't make it to reunion.
Son Bobby and his wife are now in Charlottesville, where
Bobby is attending graduate school in Business Administra-
tion. They're especially happy to be in this country after
three years at U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo.

Peg Huxley Dick and husband Bob had a quiet summer

at home with daughter Carroll, who wasn't well. She's
back in Durham now, working with the horses in a limited
way, and really digging in to her writing course. Son Ned
is slaving away at UNC, dnd Peg and Bob went to Pawley's
Island for a week last October and to Chicago and Wis-
consin in November.

Jane Moore Johnson writes from Pittsburgh that her
two sons are both married. Tom is working on Documentary
Films in N. Y. and Jim is teaching at Cheshire School for
Boys in Conn.

Helen Findley Meigs is still active in Real Estate in
Los Angeles. Her doctor husband is a professor at USC
and an author of textbooks in accounting and auditing.
Helen's married daughter and three granddaughters live
near them. Her son is a student at USC and a businessman
at Lake Arrowhead. She and her husband see Ad Merrill
Luthin and her husband frequently.

Fran Baker Owen waxed ecstatic over the wedding of
Nancy Braswell Holderness' daughter which she attended
in August. Fran has one daughter through college, one
other daughter and two sons in school, and Fran is still
studying, working toward a Master of Liberal Arts at
Johns Hopkins.

Am forwarding your card with requested address to
Alumnae Office, Sally Doughtie Crile Crocker. However,
Jean Bird's last address is Mrs. Leslie E. Antonius, 325
Lakewood Blvd., Madison, Wise.

Corinne Fentress Gray writes from her just completed
"dream house" in Old Town, Maine that she is still active
with horses, and that both daughters are U.S. Pony Club
"A's". Eldest son works for his father in Old Town, and
second son about to get his Master's degree and go to
S.A. with the Peace Corps.

Dorothea McClure Mountain and husband Bill toured
Banff and the Canadian Rockies in July, and visited their
married daughter and baby girl in Conn, in October. Husband
Bill took early retirement this year so the Mountains head-
ed for Florida where they spent most of the winter.

Alma Martin Rotnem and husband had two months in
Europe last year but said N.Y. looked good when they
returned in June.

Martha Harvey Gwinn had an 80-day trip around the
world last summer. Her daughter Anne Fox (SBC '57) is
living now in D.C. Marty's youngest son and bride are
with the Army in Mannheim, Germany.

Carrie Marshall Young Gilchrist and husband Peter
had a six-week ts ? to New Zealand, Australia and South
Africa, stopping in Lisbon and London on the way home.
Both of C. M.'s boys are living at home at the moment.
Peter, III and Marshall both work in Charlotte.

Anne Thomson Smith and husband Withan (alias Bud)
have three children, Withan, Jr. (alias Pete) married, with
four children, Mike, 22, unmarried, and Laura, 15.
Pete and Mike work for Bud who is the Cincinnati Air
Activities Distributor for Cessna Aircraft. All the Smiths
except Laura (who isn't eligible yet) have their pilot's
licenses! Anne sees Liz Tomlin Jewell and Kay Barrett and
corresponds with Ad Merrill Luthin. Anne keeps busy doing
volunteer work.

Liz Tomlin Jewell writes from Franklin, Tenn. that she's
given up other activities for bridge and golf. She has two
married sons, 1 granddaughter, 1 'son in college, and daugh-
ter, Betsy, a freshman at Harpeth Hall in Nashville.

Emily Bowen MuUer writes from Paoli this is her busiest
year ever. She is plugging away at her masters in Library
Science and is Head Librarian at the local library. In
addition to son Chip, a sophomore at Univ. of Colorado,
and Sue, a senior in high school, the Mullers took on an
exchange student from Chile for ten months. Emily and
George spent last summer manicuring the herb garden for
the October meeting of the Herb Society.

Peg Lloyd Bush, husband and two sons, Gregory and
Lloyd, took a three week automobile trip last June in
Europe. Last May they went up to Mass. to attend
wedding of Peg Usher's daughter, Susan.

George Ann Jackson Slocum's oldest son, in the Navy,
presented them with first grandson last summer. Her mar-
ried daughter lives in Dennison, Iowa, with her architect
husband and her younger son is a senior at Princeton.
George Ann had a free trip to Europe last summer: a friend
won two trips to Copenhagen on S. A.S.I

Marjorie Wing Todd's daughter Wing (SB '66) teaches

Practice and History of Art at St. Catherine's in Richmond,
and next daughter, Eleanor, is at Agnes Scott College.
Marge is still busy with two sons, 16 and 11, at home.

Letter from Aline Stump Cook says this is the first
time since leaving Sweet Briar she hasn't been associated
with teaching on a full-time basis. Stumpy doing household
chores is difficult to visualize! She finds it boring but less
exacting. Tracy, 15. daughter of Stumpy's husband, has
come to live permanently with the Cooks, and be a
sister to their Peggy, who is 13.

Stumpy sees Muggy Gregory Cukor. They are both
active in Church work and also do a bit of bridge from
time to time. Muggy's son is a sophomore at Chapel Hill.

I am the luckiest stay-at-home ever. Both married daugh-
ters live nearby; Betty Forsyth Harris (S.B. '60) with her
two little girls, and Elsie with her two little boys! Married
son Douglas, living in Salem, Va. where he attends Roanoke
College. Youngest daughter Nancy, taking a business course
in D.C. and loves typing and shorthand. Harry and I have
fun playing doubles — in separate groups — on the tennis
court we put in the back yard.

1937

Class Secretary: Elizabeth Lee McPhail
(Mrs. Fred), 1635 Hertford Road, Char-
lotte. N.C. 28207

Fund Agent: Barbara Jarvis; 102 East
Dudley Ave., Westfield, N.J.

By the time this letter is printed, our 30th reunion
will be history and much more will have been spread by
word of mouth up and down the halls of Meta Glass
dorm — but here are a few notes from my winter corres-
pondence.

Margaret Bradley Forsyth wrote that daughter Margaret
was teaching "mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed"
children. Son Logan is an engineering freshman at U. Va.

Peggy Cruikshank Dyer sgunded like her usual busy self:
Director of Homemaker Service, garden club, church work,
tennis, badminton and enjoying two nearby grandchildren.
She and Holmes had a fine three-week Florida vacation
in Feb. .

With one daughter a freshman at Goucher. one a
senior at Randolph-Macon, and the third married to a law
school_ senior at U.N.C.. Polly Lambeth Blackwell and hus-
band Winfield traveled to Spain last fall to "recover from
the jolt of suddenly living alone together."

The Education field is being enriched by two of our
classmates. Izzy Olmstead Haynes is beginning to feel
quite experienced after three years of teaching, and Mary
Weston Thompson is holding down a full time High
School job. The Thompsons have two daughters at home
[junior and senior high age) and, by now, have welcomed
their eldest home from a four year army hitch, this last
year spent in Germany.

Izzy will be at Dartmouth for son Ted's graduation. Ted
worked last year in Denmark and Jared, a rising junior
will travel in Russia with a student group this year.

The Southern Conference Basketball tournament brought
Marie Walker Gregory and husband to Charlotte for a
few days and we had a fine time catching up on news
between games. Marie had visited with Aggie Crawford
Bates, Lillian Lambeth Pennington, and Dorothy Thomas
Upton during the last year. Son John graduated from Wood-
berry Forest this June.

Frances Kemp Pettyjohn's daughter Susan was married
last summer in Lynchburg; Mary Parii moved from Rocky
Point, N.Y.. to Dunedin, Fla.; Wes Ward Francis was in
Charlotte for an antique show but I did not have a chance
to see her; Anne Lauman Bussey and family are living in
Alexandria, Va. after a long stay at Carlisle Barracks. Pa.;
Becky Douglas Mapp was at SBC graduation as a proud
parent; and I was sorry to read of the death of Julia
Dearmont Fisher's father last fall.

1938

class Secretary: Francis Bailey
Brooke (Mrs. George M.. Jr.) 405
Jackson Ave., Lexington, Va. 24450
Fund Agent: Janet Macfarlan Berg-
mann (Mrs. Charles H.) 244 Ackerman
Ave.. Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. 07423

Molly Talcott Dodson writes that their "Peace Corps
Volunteer" returned from Peru in November and is pres-
ently working in Philadelphia as assistant to the Director
of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships. Their '65 gradu-
ate from Sweet Briar is finishing her second year of teach-
ing Math. Young Grif is in his third year at Episcopal
High School. Molly is her usual busy self but takes time
out to remind us that a year from now is 1968 and thirty
years after! This isn't a bit too soon to start thinking
about our Great Thirtieth Reunion and you'll be hearing
muclu more about this later this year. In the meantime
please let me have some suggestions for making it our
best Reunion yet!

Many changes are in store for Becky Kunkle Hogue and
her family this year, as they are moving to Naples in
midsummer where husband Fred is already managing the
Chateau. Peter will enter the Army in August. Richard
graduates from Stetson University this June, and John
from the University of South Florida in December. Penny
returns from California this summer and plans to get her
degree in elementary education. Becky says she is "being
constantly challenged by the intellectually superior in
eleven of our county schools."

Janie Weimer Shepherd's son Tony, 20. is at Chapel
Hill and loves it. He has already found the way to Sweet
Briar where he dated Jo Happ Willingham's daughter
Helen. Tony is going to Scandinavia in June. His younger
brother Jim. 17, is in High School in Charleston. Janie
sees Jinny Faulkner Matthews and keeps busy with Church,
bridge, some golf and "double crosstics"!

A family reunion was in store for Rose Hyde Fales
at the time of her daughter Alice's wedding on May 13
to lawyer Richard B. Stewart. The Fales' daughter Willie
Fales Eckerberg and her husband came from Sweden, leav-
ing 6-months-old John Fales Eckerberg with his Swedish
grandparents. Rose declares that they are very happy in
Washington and don't miss life in the Foreign Gervice.

During February Billy Heizer Hickenlooper and her hus-
band Bo spent a wonderful week in the Bahamas with
Fritz (Cordes) and Frank Hoffman. Daughter Myra and her
husband expected their first child on May 6. Another daugh-
ter. Liny, married two years ago, is teaching in Braton.
while John gets his Ph.D. in the Classics. Billy's son Andy
is a junior at Bucknell and Bizzy is in business school.
A really exciting letter from Marge Thaden Davis in
Chappaqua. N.Y. announces the news that she is one of the
winners of the trip to Holland awarded to the two girls
who sold the most bu'lbs during the 1966 season! She and
the other winner Anne Sheffield Hale '54 from Atlanta, left
for Amsterdam on April 22. Their activities include a visit
to the Keukenhof Gardens, the flower parade, a trip to
the bulb fields, the Alsmeer flower auction, the canal tour
through Amsterdam and a day out on Mr. Van Zyverden,
Sr.'s yacht. Those two clever girls traded their first class
tickets for tourist so that Anne's husband can join them
for part of the time and Marge can take along her 13-
year-old daughter Ann. They plan to include visits to Lon-
don and Paris. Marge and Anne Hale are scheduled to
attend the Alumnae Council in October to tell about their
trip. Other members of Marge's family include Suzanne, 21,
now at Katherine Gibbs in Boston after completing two
years at Roanoke College. Another daughter Linda is 19
and a freshman at Wellesley College. She is a Time-Life
National Merit Scholarship. Marge sees quite a few Sweet
Briar girls in the Westchester Club, particularly Anne Phil-
bin Ellis and Jane Kent Titus who is also very enthusiastic
about the Bulb project.

Eylese Miller Latham is currently Dean of Girls at
Kecoughtan High School in Hampton. She was formerly
Head of the Language Department there and hated to
give up the teaching but is enjoying her "Deanship". She
is also working on a Masters Degree in Guidance and
Counseling at William and Mary College. Son Stanley grad-
uated from the University of Virginia on June 4 and daugh-
ter Carolyn is a junior in High School.

It was grand to get a long letter from Carolyn Staman
Ogilvie full of news about her family. Her oldest son Buck
Jr. graduated from Washington and Lee in 1964 and gained
his Masters Degree in Industrial Management at M.I.T. last
year. He is now a Second Lt. stationed at the Computer
Center in Hawaii. Her daughter Margaret went to Newcomb,
then to the University of Arizona where she finished in

1965. Now she is back in New Orleans teaching school.
Next September son Staman enters Washington and Lee
and I am counting on seeing Carolyn often during the
next four years! Staman was distinguished during his high
school senior year by being selected as one of the two
Louisiana delegates to the William Randolph Hearst U.S.
Senate Youth Conference in Washington for a week in
January. Carolyn says he gained a new-found respect for
the United States government. Buck is in the family busi-
ness, a wholesale hardware company, and both he and
Carolyn remain busy with church work and other com-
munity activities. Meanwhile, Buck, Staman, Margaret and
Carolyn "plus 2 grandmothers, 2 uncles, 2 aunts and 3
cousins (!!!!)" are planning a month's visit to the Hawaiian
Islands this summer for a tour guided by Buck Jr.

Elizabeth Willcox Bowerfind writes that they were
transferred by Howard Johnson to New York in August
after five years in Miami. Her oldest Harold is a sopho-
more at the University of Miami and Betty is a freshman
at Montreat Anderson Junior College in North Carolina.
Anne is a sophomore at Garden City High School and
George enters Junior High in the fall. Elizabeth is looking
for other Briarites on the Island. Her new address is 20
Adams Street, Garden City, New York 11530.

Jo Happ Willingham's daugther Helen at Sweet Briar
has been accepted for the Junior Year in France. Her son
Joe is married and lives in New York where he is working
toward his Ph.D. in Philosophy. Another son John graduated
last June from Carolina and will receive his commission in
the U.S. Army next month.

M. J. Miller Hein and husband Bill spent a month in
the Hawaiian Islands in February and March. They plan
to fly to North Dakota the end of May for their son John's
graduation from Jamestown College. Daughter Judy trans-
ferred from SBC to the University of Texas to further her
interest in Dramatics and Janet 10 is in the sixth grade —
"a whirlwind who is graying her Ma's hair rapidly but a
real joy to have about"!

A card from Nancy Old Mercer was full of news about
daughter Anne's wedding on August 29. Smeady and Clay
are expected, as their daughter Barbara will be a bridesmaid.
Nancy had a grand visit with Vesta and Ed who passed
through Dallas in April, heading to California. Nancy's
daughter Marilyn is a Tri Delta Freshman at Ole Miss,
Blair Jr. is a sophomore and just passed his Eagle Scout
Rank. He and Edward, 11, are avid fishermen, so the
family spends every possible weekend at the lake.

Winnie Hagberg St. Peter writes that son John will
graduate from M.I.T. this June and will go to graduate school
there or the University of Chicago next fall. Barbara is
completing her freshman year at the Univ. of Calif, at
Santa Barbara and plans to transfer to Berkeley in Sep-
tember. Husband Stan is preparing to move into his new
dental office and Win has been filling in for the past two
months for his nurse while she recuperated from surgery.

Pollyanna Shotwell HoUoway down in Baton Rouge
says she would like to see Some Briarites somewhere,
sometime. Her daughter, 24, is a graduate of L.S.U. and is
teaching school. Polly has a granddaughter 6 years old in
the first grade. One son, 20, is a Pre-Medical student at
L.S.U. and another son 15 is a sophomore in High School.
Polly and Bob work together in Real Estate and Insurance
and love it.

Dolly Nicholson Tate and husband Jack are busy as
usual. Dolly has just completed a year as President of the
Board of Directors of the Florence Crittenden Home but
remains on another year. Jack was campaigning for Mayor
of Charlotte at the time of Dolly's card and the election
was May 5. I haven't yet heard the results of that election.
Caroline (Tate) and husband Frank Noojin live in Hunts-
ville, Alabama, where he is a partner in a law firm. John
III is a sophomore at UNC in Chapel Hill and has already
made a trip or two to "The Patch." He will go to Switzer-
land this summer on the Experiment in International Living.

Two cards from Maud Tucker Drane were received with
much pleasure! The highlight of the year was their 25th an-
niversary trip to Europe last fall "including a sentimental
and delightful return to St. Andrews". Maud says it was
just as wonderful as she remembered, very little changed
in 30 years with several familiar faces, including Charles
Armour, now minister of the local kirk and in her day
head of the student union and soccer star. Another St.

Andrews reunion of sorts took place last summer in Cleve-
land with Kitsy Brown Oliver, Smith '38, Gracy Luckett
Stoddard, '39 and Kitsy's Aunt Estelle from London who was
Mother to their group in '36-'37. Maud's oldest daughter
Eleanor finished at Bryn Mawr and after a year as appren-
tice teacher at Shady Hill School, Cambridge, will be
teaching at Princeton Day School next year. Another daugh-
ter Robbie, a sophomore at Wellesley, will go to Switzer-
land and Yugoslavia this summer for two sessions of work
camps sponsored by the American Friends Service Com-
mittee. Son Hardy will enter the University of Pennsylvania
next fall, leaving them with one lone teen-ager, Bevvie, a
ninth-grader at Laurel School, and soon to get her driver's
license! Maud and her family still have frequent trips to
Virginia to take Bevvie to camp at Mont Shenandoah and
recently they attended a Tucker reunion (300 strong) in
Williamsburg. Her mother and father just celebrated their
52nd wedding anniversary!

Ves (Murray) and Eddie Haselden had a wonderful trip
to Eddie's annual convention in Los Angeles and she also
tells of the fun the Sweet Briar girls had in Dallas. Ves
says, "Nancy Old Mercer looks just the same except that
she has short hair". Susan Matthews Powell was there and
"she was as pretty and slim as ever". Ves says the con-
versation really flew. Their daughter Min Murray is off to
Europe this summer and son Edward will be "externing"
at Columbia Hospital after completing his second year at
Chapel Hill's Medical School. Anne is in High School in
Columbia.

The news with Helen Hays Crowley is that she is now
a proud grandmother. Carol's little girl was born in Cali-
fornia May 14 but Helen can't visit as often as she would
like from Cleveland. In the meantime she is preparing to
move from her house into an apartment if she can find
one she likes. Son Jim is finishing his second year of
law at Ann Arbor. Helen keeps busy with her job, the
theatre, symphony, adult education, bowling, etc.

Dot Tison Campbell writes that her son Jamie, Jr. was
an Honor graduate from Dartmouth receiving all kinds of
military honors. Dorrie is in her third year of nursing at
McGill University — Polly is a sophomore at Sophie Newcomb
in New Orleans and Edgar Tison in his first year of high
school. Jim Sr. has recovered from serious cancer last
summer and Dot says she is "just perking along happily
counting her blessings."

Josephine McCandlish Prichard's daughter Becky grad-
uated from Wellesley in June as a "Wellesley Scholar"
and will go to Europe for the summer — then teach at Win-
sor School in Boston next year. Son Charles is finishing
his first year at Princeton and has a job at the Lake
Placid Club for the summer. Molly and Grif Dodson spent
a weekend with them in May and they expected to see
Anne and Blake Newton en route to Wellesley in June. She
said their daughter's wedding last September was lovely.

It was grand to get a card from Kay Hoyt who has
moved back to Baltimore to become Assistant to the Head-
mistress of the Bryn Mawr School. Kay loves it there and
has talked to Lew Griffith Longstaff on the phone. She
saw Macky Fuller Kellogg when she was in Boston during
spring vacation. Now that Kay is nearer Sweet Briar, she
hopes to get down for a weekend sometime.

It was a delight to hear from Pauline Womack Swan
in Saginaw, Michigan. Her oldest daughter Nancy is mar-
ried and living in Flint, Michigan, and she and her husband
Dave have two children, Libby 5 and David Jr. 2. Tricia,
Pauline's second daughter is 21 and graduates this summer
from the University of Michigan. Susie is 18 and finishing
her freshman year at the University. George, Jr. is 11.
Pauline and her husband built a new home 3 years ago
by the country club golf course and they play often. Re-
cently they finished a summer cottage on Higgins Lake
in northern Michigan and they are busy getting it settled.
It is part of an association with a central dining hall, so
everyone gets a marvelous rest. Sounds ideal! Pauline
hopes to come to a reunion, so next year should be the one.

Shirley Haywood Alexander sent me a beautiful card in
May of my favorite city Lucerne and said it was snowing
there. She and Tom had a glorious European trip for a
month.

The biggest newsmaker in our family just now is our
son George Ill's graduation June 11 from V.M.I, and the
announcement just two weeks ago of his engagement to

Jane Ross Leech whose father is Commandant at V.M.I.
George (we call him Chip) will enter the U.S. Marine Corps
in September and he and Jane hope to be married next
February when he finishes Basic School at Quantico. In
the meantime the four of us, including husband George and
daughter Marion 19 have a European trip planned to last
for five weeks, leaving June 16.

Next year, gals, is our own Thirtieth Reunion. So
mark it on next year's calendar now and let's plan a
wonderful time!

1940

Class Secretary: Mildred Moon Mont-
ague (Mrs. William L.) 6 Bartram Rd.,
Lookout Mt., Tenn. 37350
Fund Agent: Reba Smith Gromel (Mrs.
George H.) 225 N. 17th St., AUentown,
Pa. 18104

If you have any outstanding tid-bits and don't remem-
ber to send them to me, please let the Alumnae Office
have them as C. P. Neel did. She's in Henderson, Ky.
where she and her younger son. Bill, have bought and
remodeled a lovely old home. C. P. teaches remedial edu-
cation at a Job Corps center. Her son, George, was married
last year. She writes that Kay Hodge Soaper is "happily
converting a part of their 200-year-old showplace into a
modern kitchen and family room. Margaret Katterjohn Mc-
Collum has two married daughters now with two sons,
17 and 13 still at home.

Sweet Briar girls are all over the country and I've been
fortunate in seeing Jean Blount Blount who came with her
doctor husband to the Heart Symposium in Chattanooga in
early January. They have four children and their eldest
daughter graduated from the College of the Pacific this
spring and wants to go to Europe for a while. Jean had
been to New Delhi, India as well as to the Brussels Worlds
Fair and saw Beth Thomas Mason in Seattle. She gardens
and has a greenhouse at their home in Denver.

Polly Boze Glascock is great about sending clippings
from the New York TIMES as well as keeping me up on
Richmond news. She sent a gorgeous picture layout of the
Richmond debs and Ann Adamson Passano's daughter,
Sally Adamson Taylor, who is at SBC, was among those
present.

Barbara Smith Whitlock's son, James P. Whitlock, Jr.,
is. engaged to Miss Gorgiana Lewis of Stonington, Conn.
He is a student at Temple University Medical School after
graduating from Princeton. They plan a summer wedding.
The State Printing Co. in Columbia, S. C. sent an invi-
tation to an Autograph Party presenting OF TIME AND
TIDE and honoring our own Georgia Herbert Hart, the
author and Moselle Skinner, the artist on December the
5th last. We'll have to get copies of that for our libraries!
Nancy Haskins Elliot writes how beautifully everything
went with Cal Tech's 75th anniversary celebration, and
that David and she have been given a trip to Europe as a
"thank you" for their parts in planning and executing it.
They plan to sail on the JASON early in April and visit
Portugal, Spain, Rome, the Greek Isles, Vienna, London
and Edinborough before coming home. Quite a wonderful
"thank you, ma'am", I'd say.

Betty Frantz Roberts wrote on her Christmas card she
and Dr. Tom "have FINALLY" begun to build that house in
Lyn .hburg.

Mickie Mitchell Gillis and family are wondering where
Susan will go to college as she's not interested in SBC.

"Tell" Sinclaire Farrar and Fred plan a 25th anniversary
celebration by Caribbean cruising in March. Should be
just the thing for a quarter of a century together!

Our eldest after being drafted last May was at Fort
Lee, Va. a few weeks before calling to say he was going
to Korea with the 7th Infantry. He went to Fort Lewis,
Washington, and I wrote Beth Thomas Mason he might
call her — and bless her, she called and chatted with me as
soon as she got my letter. Loved hearing how all her family
is well and how she'd seen Jean Blount.

Bill and I enjoy the Master's in Augusta each April
and thanks to Jane Bush Long we'll be there again this
year — despite the lack of tickets or rooms. These SB con-
nections really are divine!

I've been president of the Chattanooga Symphony Guild
this past year and it has been a real challenge. Not only

problems of all sorts with manager resigning, conductor
not having his contract renewed, but sticking with it to the
end. I believe it's time I went quietly into retirement.
Our Hungarian refugee violinist was attacked and had a
shoulder broken so I'm now in the throes of raising
funds for his therapy and recuperation following orthopedic
surgery.

I was most impressed with a write-up of Mary Lee
Settle in the U.Va. CAVALIER DAILY. When I commented
to our 3rd year man son we had been school mates he
asked. "Why aren't you smart like she is?" She seems
to be doing a great job writing and lecturing.

'Twas fun to see Midge Fleming Gray last fall when
she was visiting her cousin in Chattanooga en route from
Hastings-on-the-Hudson to Dayton, Ohio. Her husband's
been transferred and their two sons will be at U.Va. and
Woodberry Forest. Midge was her cute, tiny, vivacious,
giggly self — gave me confidence in the Sweet Briar image
twenty-six years after!

1941

class Secretary: Decca Gilmer Frack-
elton (Mrs. Robert L.) 1714 Greenway
Dr., Fredericksburg, Va.
Fund Agent: Elizabeth Brown-Sherman
MacRae (Mrs. Colin) 903 Vicar Lane,
Alexandria, Va. 22302

It's trite, but still true that "It's a small world," especi-
ally when you look up from a cup of tea at Brompton to
learn that the Kenmore Regent from Colorado is none
other than Emory Hill Rex! Time was fleeting, but I did
discover that there is to be a June bride in the Rex
household — Aline ('65). Son Lloyd and his bride are in
Germany. Daughter Loren is a junior at the University of
Colorado.

Emory then went on to Washington to visit Craigie
(Margaret Craighill Price] who invited Eloise English
Davies ('42) and her Admiral husband for dinner while
Emory was there. For those who hadn't caught up, Craigie
bought an "itsey-bitsey farm near Sperryville" before going
to Europe last summer. She left with Sharon ('66) and Mar-
garet for a month in Italy, then Karl and the other two
girls joined them for a month in Southern France and
Switzerland. Sharon flew back before the sojourn was over.

Ann Borough O'Conner has spent the past year moving
to a new apartment in New York and getting their apart-
ment at Marco Island, Florida furnished. She will now
reap the rewards and "relax and play golf".

Edge Cardamone O'Donnell had a pleasant, golfing summer.
Her daughter Jean spent two weeks in Ireland last July,
then in January had a school trip to Italy for a week
and Edge went along as one of the chaperones. Jean will go
to Mt. St. Vincent in Sept. and son Bob to summer stock
in Vermont in June.

Tish Seibels Frothingham from New Canaan sent news
of Birmingham where she had visited with her younger
children. She saw Franny Baldwin Whitaker who "still looks
like Vogue — hair sprayed so beautifully"; Ruth Hemphill
De Buys who "is a most cooing, gurgling grandmother";
and Lillian Fowkles Taylor still "lovely looking". Ruth has
taken up oil painting and is selling her work. Tish reports
"they're good, slightly impressionistic". Back home she is
"pushing vacuum cleaners around and struggling with the
new math of 5th graders".

Tish also mentioned that Marie Gaffney Barry travels
everywhere, is never at home. I last heard from Marie in
February when she and Ted were on a skiing vacation in
France, Switzerland and Austria.

On George Washington's birthday Mary Scully Olney,
traveling South with two of her five (Margie and David)
arranged a luncheon meeting in D. C. with roommates
Katherine Estes and me. We had extra time to chat while
the youngsters visited the Washington Monument.

Evie Cantey Marion's Margaret was 16 on May 1 and
rehearsing to be Celia in "As You Like It", the spring
production at Ashley Hall. Her Andy is a junior at EHS
and unfortunately broke his ankle last fall just before the
football season opened. Georgia Herbert Hart's ('40) son
Frank is in Andy's class and daughter Becky is to be a
June bride, honeymooning in Europe. Evie's Evelyn made
her debut in Columbia, "fun and exciting but we're glad
to be back to normal."

From Beanie Whilaker Barlel in Winston-Salem learned
that her Anna (66) has been in New Orleans this year —
first doing graduate work and teaching Freshman French at
Tulane. then second semester "teaching in a public school,
a government project — teaching Spanish-Americans English
and American ways of life". Her no. 3 child Jinny was
elected president of the National Honor Society at Bishop
McGuinness High School. The Bartels are about to build a
new home.

Gleaned a bit of news of Ann Teall Carrington from
three Richmond friends — she's a tennis player, has two sons.
Dick and Tim. at St. Christopher's. Dick, a senior, was a
successful M. C. at their Senior Varieti' Show May 12.

Lou Lembeck Reydel. another golfer, dropped me a
line when she returned the Scrapbook. She had recently
seen Do Huner Swiech whose daughter is a talented swim-
mer and last summer had seen Jean Ruggles Smith in
Chatham (Mass.). Son Chuck at Quantico had germ an meas-
les (shades of senior year, she remembers.) She brought
Barbara and Steve down for Chuck's graduation May 24 and
we had a brief visit with them.

Lillian Breedlove White's son was married June 17
and will continue studying at Penn State.

Dedore Qoan Devore Roth), the 1967 Reunion Chairman,
and her husband took their three girls to Jamaica for
Spring Vacation. She listed being a docent at the Art
Museum as one of her winter activities. Her Barbie at
Lindenwood was elected treasurer of the Athletic Asso-
ciation.

Those who were too busy to answer the last cards,
remember they are good anytime — write later!

1942

Class Secretary: Ann Hauslein Potter-
field (Mrs. Thomas) 4611 Virginia
Ave., SE. Charleston, W. Va.
Fund Agent: Ann Morrison Reams;
Laura Graves Howell.

"Where, oh where are the grand old Seniors
Lost now in the wide, wide world."

Thirty-seven grand old 42'ers found themselves again
on Sweet Briar soil. They received the same thrill of enter-
ing the gates and driving up the long tree-lined roadway,
anticipating the initial glimpse of a red brick, ivy-covered
building.

Changed — yes — in that there are more buildings, re-
routed roadways, parking lots — changed — no — in that the
beauty of the place remains constant and awesome. I got
the same overwhelming feeling — how could I have been
so blessed to have spent four years in such lush magni-
ficence? Looking across the fields up to the mountains, it
was reaffirmed to me that this is the mark of the Sweet
Briar girL God is everiwhere. and goodness and good
people are bound to come forth from such an Alma Mater.

No pen can reproduce the spirit of our reunion, the
almost instant recognition of a face lost for 25 years, the
discovery after 24 hours that we felt as though time had
stood stUl. and we were all still sitting in the Student
Government office, bulling as of old. Yesterday became as
today and a sense of comradeship was natural.

First off. we elected a new President of the class,
Sudie Clark Hanger, with husband Bill, ex-officio. He
really ought to be song leader for he struggled valiantly
to inspire us in song at the Boat House (no one could re-
member the words, Ann Hauslein Potterfield was drafted as
class secretary. Sudie and I represent the two largest families
in our class, boasting 15 children between us. Do you read
some kind of ccessage in this selection?

You never heard more chatter, or saw more snapshots,
or compared more life-notes. Everyone looked better and
was far more interesting — but some things remained status
quo — Ruthie Hensley Camblos would still win the vote for
May Queen (despite hobbling about with a broken toe).
Eugie Burnett Affel still stood as the leader of our class.

Two rooming foursomes had memorable and first re-
unions — Jeanne Sawyer Stanwood, Betsy Chamberlain Bur-
chard, Si Walke Rogers, and Laura Graves Howell, and
the other group, Margie Trontman Harbin, Frannie Cald-

well Harris, Phyllis Sherman Barnes, and Eddie Syaka
Peltier. Our one physician returned — independent as ever —
Virginia Duggins, now a neurologist outside Washington,
and Di Greene Helfrich was back, and Kippie Coleman who
has remained in education. Another threesome who have
remained close over the years^Sally Schall Van Allen, Mimi
Galloway Duncan, and Frannie Meek Temple — No reunion
would be complete without Dougie Woods Sprunt, and of
course, our brave and charming reunion chairman, Lucy
Call Dabney.

Looking particularly lovely was Dottie Malone Yates, ac-
companied by her attractive husband, Charlie. Faithful
Anne Morrison Reams scooted out from Lynchburg and
Stoney Moore Rutherford, was her warm friendly self, so
full of loyalty to SBC. Edith Brainerd Walter and Nancy
Davis Reynolds seemed unchanged, as nice as always.
Eloise English Davies, our lawyer, is as composed as ever,
as are Jean Hedley Currie and Virginia Moomaw Hall — 25
years have not ruffled their feathers. Betty Hanger (Hank)
Lippincott drove down from Philly, while Grace Laniar
Brewer combined reunion with college hopping with her
daughters. Nancy Goldbarth Glaser and my dear old box-
mate, Shirley Hauseman Nordhem roomed together again.
Irene Mitchell Moore chattered on in her usual enthusiasm,
and Joanne Oberkirch Willis was as quiet and soft spoken
as alvk'ays. Need I say that Margaret Preston Newton looked
lovely — I said we hadn't changed! I guess Daphne Withing-
ton Adams and I looked as though we'd still enjoy a
good game of hockey.

Everyone who ever touched the class of 42 was re-
membered and missed. We wanted all of you there to
reminisce with us. You would have loved what you found —
a magnificent campus, beautiful new buildings, a warm
welcome, and old friends.

1943

Class Secretary: Marguerite Hume,
2218 Village Dr., Louisville, Ky.
Fund Agent: Betty Scluneisser Nelson
(Mrs. Karl J.) Sachem Rd., Rt. 2,
Weston, Conn. 06880

In answer to a hasty plea, news has come from two
who must surely be among our busiest. From New Orleans
Lucy Kiker Jones reports: "You just caught me as I am
leaving for New York tomorrow to put Missy (middle daugh-
ter) on a boat ior a seven-week trip to Europe. I envy her.
She is going to be a freshman at U. of Arizona next year.
Patsy (now 23 — unbelievable!) is going to Tulane summer
school and is going to Lima. Peru, July 15 for a visit. She
will graduate in January from L.S.U.N.C. Cynthia, 10, is at
Rockbrook Camp in Brevard, N.C. Willy and I plan to go
to Asheville, N.C, to pick her up. We are renting a cottage
at Ponte Vedra, Fla., for the month of August, so will not
see all my Virginia friends."

. . . And from Santa Barbara, Cal.. the first word in a
long time from Mary Law Taylor: "What a long time it's
been since we all were bustling about Sweet Briar! We have
big family news at the moment — our daughter Gwennie will
be married on August 12 (her 21st birthday) to Julian McKey
Whitaker from Atlanta, who is in Emory Medical SchooL
Our son will be a sophomore at Princeton in the fall
(Stuart Jr.) and our youngest. Clare, is a senior in high
school. We moved to California from Philadelphia three
years ago and have come to love it. Maybe we'll meet again
at some S.B.C. reunion."

Like next year — our twenty-fifth, no less? See you there?

Betty Potter Kinne Hillyer, home in La ^oUa, Calif,
after six weeks in Europe on a tennis trip, says that she and
Bill had a wonderful time thanks to the "People to People
Sports Committee" sponsor. Their 12-year old, Elizabeth,
went off to camp in the high Sierras for a month, leaving
Betty Potter to care for the Irish setter, the cocker, a fish
and some kids. Fortunately, the San Diego Humane Society
is Betty's favorite good work, so she's in practice.

Nancy Jameson Glass, living in Hamburg. N.Y.. 12 miles
from Buffalo and not far from Lake Erie, reports that their
daily life includes "quite a bit of boating, swimming, fishing,
etc." Her older boy. Bill is going to Tri-State College in
Indiana, while Nori will be a junior next fall in Hambturg
High.

As Prestiss Jones Hale puts it, her family has "reached
the dispersing stage, with Tom, 13, starting at Exeter in
September, Sam a senior at Choate, and Simon at Sterling.
The twins are both working this summer. Si at a neighbor-
ing farm and Sam at a tent theatre at home in Walling-
ford, Conn. Prentiss herself is assistant office manager of
the New Haven Unit of Recording for the Blind. Having
volunteered there for several years, she found the transition
to full time relatively easy.

1947

1945

class Secretary: Mary Katherine Frye
Hemphill (Mrs. Samuel M.). 344 - 7th
Ave., N.E., Hickory, N.C. 28601
Fund Agent: Martha Bolton Glesser
(Mrs. Donald G.) 5698 Raven Rd.,
Birmingham, Ala.

Husbands and their headlines lead off the news this
time. In May the Charlotte Observer had a feature article
on William M. Geer (who married our Betty Grayson). Bill
is the history professor turned Student Aid Officer for
UNC at Chapel Hill. His office distributes some $2 million
to about 3000 students each year. The article quoted Bill
on his philosophy concerning his job, the present need
for it and his wish that the time would come when his
position will no longer be necessary . . . that free education
will be available to all to the highest degree they are able
to achieve. Librarian Betty is busy moving into the sorely
needed new Chapel Hill Public Library.

It took a trip to Chattanooga for me to realize that
Mary King Oemig's husband Lew had been making head-
lines in my own hometown paper every time the National
Lefty-Righty Golf Tournament is held at our club. He and
his partner have won it at least once, and Sam also tells
me Lew is among the leading amateur golfers in the nation,
having business interests in the sport as well. He and Mary
have two sons. West at UVA and younger son King.

Hedy Edwards Davenport and Sarah Temple Moore
graciously supplied me with news of some of our Chatta-
nooga class members. Much to my regret I did not see
Betty Carbaugh Fancher because she was ill. Hedy manages
her flock of eight — from 4 year old John to W&L junior Joe —
with the aplomb you would expect. I had a grand visit
in her lovely Georgian home on Lookout Mountain, saw
her rose garden near the swimming pool, and met some
of the younger children — including Margaret 13, who has
developed her mother's talent for the piano. Eldest of the
five daughters. Cissy is in Chapel Hill this summer, will
be presented at the Chattanooga Cotton Ball in August,
and plans to return to Manhattanville College in White
Plains as a Sophomore this Fall. Jeff has just acquired his
driver's license, the other girls are in camp or going soon,
and John's chief concern that day was bug catching. Hedy
still has time for golf and travel with husband Joe, presi-
dent of Volunteer Life Ins. Co.

Sarah told me about her boy& — she will have two at
UVA this fall, Tom and Ted. Right now Tom is traveling
in Europe with a group of boys. Chris will be a Senior at
Baylor there in Chattanooga, Tim and Freddy are also
still at home. In June Sarah had seen Gloria Lupton Tenni-
son who came fro.n Fort Worth with her son and two
daughters to a nephew's graduation from Baylor. Her more
recent travels have been to Africa for big game hunting.
Sarah had played bridge that day with Hilda Hude Voigt
whose son Reid goes to UNC — Chapel Hill this fall as a
Freshman. Daughter Phyllis is a freshman at Girl's Pre-
paratory School.

Betty Avery Duff is so glamorous these days and as
much fun as ever. She has two sons, the elder at UVA,
and a younger daughter. Mildred Carothers Healy has a
son making national sports news as an All-Conference
football player and championship wrestler at Vanderbilt. If
Chip Healy is in the Ail-American list next winter, you
will know his proud mama. She undoubtedly would have
much to tell us about Rob at Baylor and Jane at GPS too!

In April Sam and I went to Europe and visited with
Kathryn in Aberdeen. We fell in love with Scotland and
well understand why this Junior year there has meant so
much to Kathryn. She and another Hickory girl are travel-
ing by car on the continent right now. In September she
will be back at Sweet Briar for that Senior year.

Class Secretary: Ann Marshall Whitley
(Mrs. Jesse), 6130 Lockton Lane,
Shawnee Mission, Kansas
Fund Agent: Sara Ann McMuUen Lind-
sey (Mrs. Douglas G.), 6104 Woodmont
Rd., Alexandria, Va.

One could not have asked for a more perfect 20th class
reunion! A beautiful and expanded campus, perfect weather
— cool and sunny, two dozen members of the class to
whoop it up a little bit and a warm reception from every-
body.

The girls "goofed" a little in choosing a new class
secretary — me. but outside of that and the disappointing
fact that Oochie Mayberry Todd did not show up, every-
thing was lovely. I understand via the grapevine that Oochie
broke a toe (the 6th toe on her left foot) just prior to her
departure from Australia, so we hope she makes it to the
25th reunion, pogo stick and all.

Nan Hart made a fine scrap book of our letters and
photos and I enjoyed hearing the news from all of you
which will be written up little by little in the next few
issues of the News. Congratulations on your marvelous
looking families. I have never seen a group of more beau-
tiful, handsome, gorgeous children anywhere!

Before getting into some of the more interesting statis-
tics all of our thanks to Kay Fitzgerald and Stu McGuire
for keeping us informed so beautifully in the many past
issues of the News. I hope I can be so inspired and do
as well. Also a wee note from each of you now and then
would be- most appreciated.

We did not take a vote on who won the "Twiggy"
contest but decided that Jane Warner certainly looked
SLIM. We didn't ask but will bet she isn't 102 lbs. soaking
wet and she looks mighty pretty. In fact we (those pres-
ent) decided that we are all more glamorous now than
then. Kay Fitzgerald has stunning silver gray hair. Gina
Walker looks 21 years old (so discouraging to us more
matronly types). Gofer, Fuzzy, and Jean Old look exactly
the same so there must be something in that Norfolk
climate! Mary Lib Vick looks 16, which made us all feel
better.

Alex Marcoglou, living in the asphalt jungle of lower
New York had not seen a tree, song bird, or a vast expanse
of green grass for so long she was overwhelmed. Jean Old
and I had to explain that the odd smell was fresh air.

Aimee DesPland and Joan Littleford brought their
husbands — brave men, and my children, going through the
scrapbook thought it terribly fascinating that Joan's Mau-
rice is a real secret service agent for the F.B.I.

Inez Rosamond and Sue Van Cleve also brought their
attractive husbands with them. Sue and Bob came down to
transport their sophomore Chris home which brings to mind
the interesting fact that the class of '47 has children rang-
ing in age from infants to young people in their mid-
twenties. Ann Colston, Mary Lib Vick, and Eleanor Bos-
worth have babies 4,- 5,- and 9 -months old respectively.
Two and three year olds are too numerous to mention, and
of course the preponderance are teen-agers.

One thing that we all seem to share in common ac-
cording to the sheets that Nan sent out . . . listed under
activities in common were, wife, cook, chauffeur, and
volunteer.

At the reunion we seemed to talk about everything
but children. We put cares behind us and enjoyed our class
picnic at Lois Ballenger's, a cocktail party on Dew Ter-
race and the Alumnae dinner in the lovely dining room
of the new Meta Glass dormitory, the Alumnae luncheon
in the Refectory, the nature walk and films, visits with
the faculty and in general everything that was planned for
us. I think that we enjoyed each other the most. I do
hope that even more of us can congregate for the 25th.
I know that Fuzzy and Cofer will be planning big things,
because they were "elected" (railroaded?) to plan the
25th reunion.

More next time about those who returned in June and
gleanings from the letters and forms you have sent in.

1948

Class Secretary: Pat Goldin Harrsch
(Mrs. Reid R.) 434 Virginia Terrace,
Madison, Wise. 53705
Fund Agent: Betsy Plunkett Williams
(Mrs. Gerald G.) 7900 North Shore Rd.,
Norfolk, Va. 23505

MARRIAGES:

Carolyn Irvine and James W. Forbes, 1966.

Jerre Flack Ridge and Henry G. Gardiner, Jr., March, 1966.

BIRTHS:

To Sally Davis Spencer, a son, Richard Perry, April 23, 1966.
To Diane King Nelson, a son, Clay Harry, May 7, 1966.

Liz Barbour Beggs is now responsible for missile
guidance and control Research for Naval Air Systems Com-
mand — a job which is not as much fun as the Sparrow-
Sidewinder one, she says. Daughter, Barbie, 15, is a sopho-
more at St. Agnes School where Lillie is in the 7th grade.
Susie, Mimi, and Gusta are in different 2nd grade classes
in public school. The Beggs had a grand summer with the
whole family at Rehobeth Beach, Del. for one week, and
Liz and Don took several short trips. Liz reports that
she had a ball at Martha Mansfield Clement's husband's
promotion party.

Wally Qlement is now a brigadier-general and is still
working at the Pentagon. Martha is teaching and is taking
courses through the Northern Virginia Center of UVA.
Martha reports that a few brave souls from the Class of '48
trudged through a winter storm for the 1966 Sweet Briar
Day luncheon in Washington. Vi Whitehead Morse's mother
was full of interesting stories about her teaching in Am-
herst.

Ann Ryland Ricks visited Meon Bower Harrison for a
weekend last July. Meon and Ricky picnicked on the slopes
of the Blue Ridge near President Hoover's old fishing camp.
Ricky also visited Diane King Nelson in September.

Westray Boyce Nicholas and family spent a month in
Colorado last summer. The Nicholases divided their time
between camping and staying at a working ranch where
they rode five hours a day.

Vickie Brock Badrow and her family spent their summer
vacation at Presque He, Mich. Vickie's boys, Chuck and
Bill, also spent two weeks at Y camp and flew to Mass.
for a visit with their grandparents. In Chicago in early
June for the Conference of Volunteer Bureaus, Vickie saw
Ann Samford Upchurch.

Betty White Johnson Ragland writes that Ann Samford
Upchurch and her twin daughters flew in their private
plane to Raleigh last Spring. The twins have even more
energy and enthusiasm than their mother, Betty says. Betty's
daughter, Betty U.. is at St. Mary's in Raleigh; Jody will
enter St. Catherine's in September, 1967; Bill is in the 1st
grade.

Pat Cansler Covington, whose two boys are almost
bigger than she, is now teaching 5-year-olds at a church
kindergarten.

Martha Davis Barnes is hoping that the presence~at SBC
of Nancy Barnes, her husband's niece, will be a drawing
card for her to return to see all the campus changes.
Martha's summer was filled with tennis, trips to and from
camp in North Carolina, a glorious week in Jamaica, and
an addition to their house.

Last summer Twink Elliott Sockwell visited Washington,
D.C. where she talked with Betty Kernan by telephone and
breakfasted in Alexandria with Mary Lou Wagner Forrester
and her family. The Sockwells also spent a few days at
Nags Head, N.C., where they unfortunately missed seeing
Bess White Gregory. Twink is Vice-Pres. of the PTA this
year. Warren does a good deal of travelling in connection
with his field of target missilry.

Closey Faulkner Dickey and Whit had a memorable
vacation in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in February of last year.
The Dickeys spent their summer vacation, as usual, at
Northeast Harbor, Maine where they participate in races
in their Mercury (13 ft. keel sloop) and generally enjoy
their Boston Whaler.

Other Maine vacationers last summer included Martha
Frye Terry and her family who spent ten days at Spruce
Head — with a camping trip to Southeast Harbor, where
Martha had studied piano one summer twenty years ago.

Martha's oldest daughter, Barbara, has been accepted at
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, for September,
1967. In spite of "slipped disc" difficulties, Martha continues
her work as part-time director of Christian Education at
her church.

Eve Godchaux Hirsch's son, Richard, is now in high
school. Eve is busy again with PTA activities which this
year include vice-chairing the school's annual fund-raising
activity.

Blair Graves Smith and family had great fun watching
every board of their new home go up. The Smiths moved
September 1.

Liz Graves Perkinson also watched a new home being
built for her family, and was very glad when it was
finally finished and their move could take place.

Rosemary Gugert Kennedy vacationed on the Gulf
Coast last summer. Her daughter, Wendy, 9, began tennis
while Teddy, 7, was on the Lawn Tennis Club's swimming
team. Rosemary, as Alumnae Representative, arranged a tea
and school meeting for Carol Cole's visit to New Orleans
last Spring.

Last June, Suzanne Hardy Beaufort and daughters,
Zanne and Bon, visited New 'Vork where the girls partici-
pated in a ballet study session. The trip was a great ad-
venture for them all, combining as it did ballet work,
playgoing and museum viewing. Suzie was busy all Fall
with publicity for two separate performances of a Ballet
Matinee in which Zanne and Bon both took part and in
which Suzie herself danced.

In July of last year, McCall Henderson Revercomb and
George moved into a new home in McLean, Virginia. Earlier
last year the Revercombs enjoyed -a fascinating trip to
Moscow, Katmandu, points in India, and Beirut.

Ginny Holmes Turner and Arch have moved to the
Boston area where Arch continues his work in computer
applications in medicine. Ginny is on the faculty of
Brandeis University.

Mayde Ludington Henningsen enjoyed a week in Ber-
muda last June when her husband, Vic, went on the New-
port to the Bermuda Race, and she met him there. The
Henningsens spent Easter Vacation with their four children
in the Virgin Islands.

Betsy Anderson Tennant's youngest girl, Peggy, started
college last Fall. Barbara, Betsy's older daughter, is entering
her second year of nursing at Charlottesville.

Dolly Antrim McKenna is in her last year in Naples,
Italy and is looking forward reluctantly to leaving. She
and the children love the city and also do a lot of travel-
ling, as they make frequent trips to meet Jim when he
comes into ports such as Athens, Malta, etc. In between
trips, Dolly plays lots of golf and bridge and enjoys the
beach.

Judy Blakey Brown worked last Spring for a local
travel agency as well as studying Spanish at the vocational
school, attending weekly folk dancing sessions, sponsoring
an art film series and the local symphony. The Browns
are enthusiastic skiers and hope to spend time in Colorado
this year.

Mary Colson Comstock has returned to New Jersey
after twenty years in New England. The Comstocks now
live in Cinnaminson where Mary is substitute teaching this
year.

Jerre Flack Gardiner remarried in March, 1966. Her
husband, Henry is a psychiatrist. With Jerre's 3 children
and her husband's 6, the Gardiners now have a grand total
of 9 — 7 boys and 2 girls.

Mary Anne Goodson Rogers spends a large share of
hertime in chauffeuring 3 children — all in different schools.
She also serves as Pink Lady in a local hospital, on the
Administrative Board of her church, and as a fund raiser
for various charities.

Caroline Haskell Simpson and her family vacationed
at Rehobeth Beach, Del., and then drove to Chicago last
summer for visits with family. Caroline is teaching kinder-
garten again this year.

Betsy Plunkett Williams sends a brief note about the
truly heart-warming response of our class to her Fund
appeals — along with a reminder that the college needs
support each and every year.

1949

Class Secretary: Margaret Towers Tal-
man (Mrs. Carter E., Jr.) 2 Huntly
Rd., Richmond, Va. 23226
Fund Agent: Carolyn Cannady Evans
(Mrs. Hervey Jr.) Box 1720 Laurinburg,
N. C.

Ho, ho, ho! Here comes Santa Claus in July. Each year
some of you start the New Year with resolution by send-
ing me news too late for the spring issue deadline. So here
1 am in the hot attic scrambling through the Christmas
decorations for these slightly cool but precious bits of news.

Carter Van Deventer Slatery wrote that the day after
Christmas she ironed 20 shirts and off they went to Miami
and Ponte Vedra. She also told of a visit she'd had from
Ellen Craft and Ken Clark; they were pretty hoarse after
catching up with eight years.

I was sorry to hear that Alice Trout Hagan's husband
Hugh suffered a stroke right after Christmas, but by all
accounts he is recovering nicely.

Maggie Wood Tillett gave me a jolt in January: a news-
paper picture of her in a bathing suit watching her children
swimming in their Charlotte pool. I was afraid the Christ-
mas push had left Maggie a little balmy in the brain, but
the accompanying article explained that they have a plastic
enclosure for the pool area which permits year-round swim-
ming. A combination of solar heat which comes through the
clear cover and heat coming off the heated water has
proved so satisfactory that John now has the distributorship
in his state. (If you order one from him tell him I get
a cut.)

Moving into March now, I'm delighted to produce a
bride. Dot Bottom Gilkey was married on March 25th to
John dharles Patrick Duffy, composer and musical director
of the Stratford (Conn.) Shakespeare Festival Theater.
Best wishes. Dot, and congratulations to the groom who
has captured our May Queen.

The March Wind blew Polly Plummer Mackie, Jack,
Alex and Allison to my house for lunch en route to Winston-
Salem for spring vacation. Between hurried mouthfuls I
learned of her part time job at the University of Penn.
Museum which she seems to enjoy very much.

An April item I have on file is a clipping from the
Baltimore paper that tells of the spring S.B. meeting being
held at the home of June Eager Finney. You'll remember
she wrote us about their new "meeting room" wing on
their house. It sounds like she acquired the Maryland
branch of the Alumnae Office.

Now that school's out, Betty Wellford Bennett has gone
to school. She's attending a three- week course in remedial
reading in Asheville which should prove helpful in her
elementary teaching post at The Collegiate School here in
Richmond. Caroline Casey and Coleman McGehee have
bought a building lot so her work is cut out for her for the
next two years.

Speaking of two years, that's how long I've held this
job and I'm pretty discouraged about the response I've
been getting. Where are you and what are you doing besides
turning the bend on being 40? I'm going to h3ve to take a
course in creative writing or start making up terrible things
about you if you don't begin to supply me with some facts.
Tomorrow morning, before you do your new thigh reducing
exercise, sit down and write me a post card with ONE
item of information about yourself.

1950

Class Secretary: Jean Probeck Wiant
(Mrs. Richard A.) 17729 Fernway Road,
Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122
Fund Agent: Marilyn Ackerson Barker
(Mrs. Henry M.) 5805 Weslover Drive,
NW, Knoxville, Tenn. 37919

Mary Virginia Roberts Mellow sent a newsy Xmas
letter describing her busy, happy family life in St. Louis.
She has 4 children ranging in age from 3 through 10. Mary
Virginia does tole painting, having painted a lamp, water
cooler, and lab desks. In addition she is a very busy
mother.

Ann Belser Asher says her family is in their wonderful
new house in Washington and they just love it.

Margaret Lewis Furse setit a precious picture of herself.

hubby, and four lovely children.

Sally Bianchi Foster is better now and trouped the
children's theatre this Fall. The chairman was Mollie
McGurdy Taylor '52. Sally says "the infamy of it all, a
Paint and Patcher working for an Ass!" She is also writing
some radio scripts on vocabulary for Headstart.

Nell Greening Keen is living in Tampa, Fla. and has
3 children — John 6, Elinor 4, and Hampton 8 months. She
has been renovating a "new" old home and has been very
busy with Jr. League work. She says Fran Cone Kirkpatrick
has been a regional director of the Jr. League in the Wil-
mington area. Nell would love mail from old friends at SBC.

Margaret Craig Sanders sent an Xmas card with a pic-
ture of 4 handsome children. She said there was a regular
SBC reunion at the Jr. League conference in Miami Beach
last May. Kay Lang Gibson, Mary Morris Gamble Booth,
Fran Cone Kirkpatrick, Veda Brooks Norfolk, Elaine Adams
Harrison, plus several from other classes. They all looked
great! She said Pete and Evie Woods Cox have visited
and are fine, and are such fun to be with.

Sally Lane Johnson wrote that their three daughters are
ages 13, 11. and 8. They have a dandy summer house at
Rehoboth Beach, Del. and thoroughly enjoy it. She is
busy with Jr. League, Garden Club, etc.

Bonnie Loyd Crane's husband has opened an office for
the practice of architecture and civic design in Philadelphia.
It is flourishing and exciting. The family vacationed in
Wyoming and camped at Yellowstone. She is enjoying
spending more time painting. She visited Ann Peyton
Cooper in New York last month. Ann's baby, Jimmy (IS
mo.) is adorable.

Rita Murray Gee moved to Australia in March 1966.

Frances Marr Dillard says she had a marvelous lunch
and visit with Mary Dame Stubbs Broad last summer.
Mary Dame's home in Hampton is lovely and looks out
over the Chesapeake.

Debby Freeman Cooper just returned from a marvelous
trip to the West Indies with two other couples. They sailed
in a chartered yacht from Grenada to Martinique and saw
a part of the world that was, as yet, unspoiled.

Mary Louise McCord Faulconer writes that she has
been teaching in Amherst County since graduation except
for time out to have three boys — Charles Jr. 14, Robert 8,
and Brian 3. She has been principal of Monroe Elementary
School for six years. Charles has his own rock and roll
band and plays several instruments. Robert plays piano and
violin. They do a lot of entertainment for local clubs and
civic groups.

Sydney Sue Overstreet Meredith says "nothing devas-
tating" — only six children. Her husband is a cardiologist.
She teaches Sunday School and is incoming president of
(he Norfolk Jr. League.

Garland Hunter Davies is still active with the foreign
student program throughout the country, serving this year
as chairman of the community section of the National
Association for Foreign Student affairs — all very time
consuming, but fascinating.

Edie Brooke Robertson is in the Washington area now,
but will be moving to California this summer. Her husband
is now a Lt. Col. in the Marine Corps and will be stationed
at Camp Pendleton near San Diego. Her children are now
12, 9, and 6.

Ann Hubert Carey and family just returned from a
10 day trip to P. R. Vieques (near Puerto Rico) and St.
Croix. They especially enjoyed the Underwater National
Park and Buck Island with snorkels following an underwater
trail.

Louise Moore had a wonderful trip this Fall with a
friend through Yugoslavia for three weeks. Lou plans to
go back to school next year for a degree in library science.

Mary Rose Crisp Warren feels that life with children
9, 8, and 6 alternates between bedlam and boredom! Her
husband is a urologist. Her chief love is her Jr. League job
as a "picture lady" in the public schools. She has used
her SBC ancient history courses by talking about the
ancient school of art. Mary Rose went to Mexico in
October and had a wonderful trip, but had a bad car wreck
and feels that only her safely belt saved her. "Please tell
everyone to wear one", she implores.

Cora Jane Morningstar Spiller lives in Alexandria, Va.
and enjoys the Washington SBC Alumnae group. She reports
that she has the same husband and four children.

Dottie Barney Hoover reports that her oldest son, Hap
15, is in his first year at Hotchkiss and just loves it.
She is getting ready for the Jr. League Follies given in
April. She is busy also with school and church activites.
She and her husband bought a boat vifith tvi^o other couples
and plans to spend the month of August at Chatham,
Cape Cod. "The children will go to sailing school and I
will languish on the beach".

1951

Class Secretary: Wingfield Ellis Park-
er {Mrs. Richard E.) 4282 Rosewell
Rd., NE Atlanta, Ga. 30305
Fund Agent: Terry Faulkner Phillips
(Mrs. Charles W.) 63 Lexington Ave.,
Buffalo, N.Y. 14222

So where are all those cards and letters? I'm grateful
for the letters from Seymour Laughon Reynolds and Jean
Randolph (Randie) Bruns, both former class secretaries, who
can fully appreciate my plight.

In addition to her duties of Second Vice President of
the Richmond Junior League, Seymour has been busy paint-
ing and constructing scenery for a hospital charity ball.
She writes that Ann Sheldon (Shelley) Taylor has just
finished her second term as the best president Richmond's
Children's Theater has ever had.

Dick and Mary Emery Barnhill have a big country
house in Cazenovia, N.Y. Dick is with the Communications
Center at Syracuse University and they find the life much
more leisurely than New York City.

Rives and Mary Pease Fleminrg built a huge vving on
their house to help accommodate the large family. Some-
how Peaso manages to play a lot of tennis as well as
handling the six young Flemings.

Randie is medical public relations officer for the
University of Richmond, serving the School of Medicine
and the hospital. As a working mama, she's looking forward
to spending August in the mountains with Alan and the
two children, Bryan (10) and Mary (7).

Terry Faulkner Phillips chases after two children, Terry
(11) and Charles (7), two dogs, two cats, and three horses.
The horses are kept on the Phillips farm outside Buffalo
where the family spends many week-ends. Terry teaches
English at the International Institute, does volunteer work
at the Children's Hospital and takes art and music lessons.

Sue Ostrander Hood wrote a beautiful card while
cruising down the Rhine. She and Lloyd attended the
Million-Dollar-Round-Table conference in Switzerland in
June and took in London and Paris during the trip.

I'm still with American Express sending people to
exotic spots. Dick and I are planning a fall trip to Spain
and Portugal where we'll spend our first anniversary. Ole!

1954

Class Secretary: Bruce Watts Krucke
(Mrs. William), Hilltop Circle, Med-
field, Mass. 02052

Fund Agent: Jean Gillespie Walker
(Mrs. George F.), Tazewell, Va. 24651

At long last we are in print again! Here are the latest
babies — some new, some not so new. Jan O'Neal Gould pro-
duced her fifth child, first girl, last spring. Her name is
Carolyn O'Neal Gould. Mimi Hitchcock Davis sends news
of her third — Paul Hayle, born in 1964. To keep pace after
skipping a year, Carole Van Tassel Donahue had twins in
October. They are Elizabeth Tara and Matthew Thomas.

And here are the latest moves that we know about:
Nancy Lee Edwards and Norman Paul have moved into
Washington, D.C., from Silver Spring, Md.; Hattie Hughes
and Dick Sfbne have gone from Little Silver, N.J., to Glen
EUyn, 111.; Mary Ann Krptzer is now in New Orleans —
formerly Nevada; Sue Callaway and George Haley have left
Dallas for Waco; Scotty Brice Griffey has gone to Oklahoma
City from Fort Worth. Page Anderson Hungerpiller and
family are now in Montgomery, Ala., but have kept their
house in Savannah also. Polly Van Peenan and Joe Grimes
who have gone to Guatemala City; and Mary Lee McGinnis
and Frank McClain have left SBC for Cambridge, England,
where Frank will continue his studies; Lynn Carlton and
Mike McCaffree have finally left Norfolk and are now up
here near us in Newport, R.I. ; Anne Collins Teachout and

Bill are in Roanoke, Va., quite near Mag Andrews Poff;
Dodo Booth and George Hamilton have moved out to
Chevy Chase, Md., from Washington.

Dodo writes that she saw Helen Smith Lewis at a prep
school day recently and she has run into Margie Morris
Powell several times. The latter is very busy judging flower
shows and giving ballet lessons. Anne Sheffield Hale sent a
long newsletter — the highlights of which were that she had
won one of the two trips to Holland offered by the bulb
growers by selling the most bulbs for SBC this past year.
The trip was taken in April. Bradley met her in England
after she toured Holland. Congratulations to Anne for
making the class of '54 look good. Vaughan Inge and Taylor
Morrissette are moving into a new house. They spent last
summer by the bay near Barbara Chace and Temple Webber.
Vaughan attended the Jr. League conference in Miami, was
VP of the Mobile League and is now President. Dilly
Johnson Jones saw Page at a Jr. League conference in
Savannah. Paul Jones was nearly our first real celebrity.
He ran for United States Congress from the 6th District in
Georgia as a Republican. This was an unfortunate year
for Georgia politics and it was reflected in Paul's district;
Dilly won't be our gal in Washington, but we'll be anxious
to hear of their future plans. Meri Hodges Major was quite
ill in the fall but is coming around. Her children are in
school in Williamsburg now. Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.,
recently used Meri's home, "Belle Air" as the setting for
the filming of a new hour and a half long educational film.
There were horses and actors everywhere. She and Walt
are looking forward to the premier early this spring. Fran
Reese Peale and family joined another family of five and
rented a 40 -foot sloop in which they cruised off Con-
necticut this past summer. Fran had lunch with Peggy
Hobbs Covington in Darien. We had lunch in Connecticut
recently too — with Meg Hetley Peck in their charming
home outside New Haven. Meg is on the Red Cross Board
and the Jr. League Board and has a volunteer job with an
inner city neighborhood center run by New Haven's pov-
erty program. We enjoyed seeing all the renovations Meg
and Bill have done with their house. Jean Gillespie Walker
has been in the midst of house remodelling for ages now — •
it was about to get her down. Speaking of Jean reminds
me to remind you to send a little something — or a big
something — to the SBC Fund.

Nancy Moody's life continues along the same course —
a new horse added, some skiing in Aspen, and the New
York horse show where she saw Jane Keating Taylor and
Maggie Mohlman. Sue Basset Finnegan continues her Jr.
League work, and writes that they had a wonderful Euro-
pean vacation in the summer of '65. Mag Andrews and
Bill Poff plan to take their winter vacation trip to Aruba
and Curacao this year. They are currently Secretary and
Chairman of the people-to-people committee for Roanoke
and her sister city, Wonju, Korea. The Poffs saw Margaret
Davison and Bates Block when they were in Roanoke for
Thanksgiving. Joy Parker Eldredge is busy as usual. They
had all kinds of company this fall with Notre Dame foot-
ball being so popular. Joy is educational Chairman of the
Junior League. Lisa continues to excel in school, swimming,
and horseback riding, while the two little boys apparently
excel in mischief! Robin Francis writes that her book. The
Trophy, is coming out in England in paperback now. The
last paperback she had there did very well. Ann Thomas is
currently part owner of a ski lodge in Southwestern Pen-
nsylvania. Ann plins to concentrate j)n apres ski herself.
She was part owner of a beach house at Rehoboth last
summer and also shared a sailboat which gave much
pleasure. Jo Nelson Booze has become a mother hen and
just loves it. She is teaching at St. Paul's school for girls —
English Lit and Grammar to 7th graders and Religious
studies to 5th graders. But the really rewarding and chal-
lenging part is being the counselor, liaison, etc., for the
12 -and 13- year- old 7th grade girls — never a day without a
crisis and a few humorous incidents. Although she found
herself tired at first, Jo has adjusted to the routine now
and wrote four glowing pages of enthusiasm for her girls
and her work.

The class would like to send belated condolences to
Ruthie Crawford Hazelip whose husband died in 1965.

Jerry Driesbach Ludeke sent another long newsletter.
They spent another summer in Oregon for John's studies.
Now he's teaching U.S. History at Bakersfield College.

Their boys are in a bi-lingual (Spanish/English) nursery
school run by the college. The mothers are learning the two
languages also. They continue to go camping whenever they
can. Peaches Davis Roane is taking typing at Mississippi
State. She can't tell yet whether she or the electric type-
writer will win. Joan Chamberlain Englesman writes that
she is a "drop in" at Drew University, but not what she's
taking. Peaches sees Sissy Morris Long, Betty Gene Orr
Atkinson, Anne White Connell, and Pony Bramlett Lowrance
quite often. Joan Potter Bickel writes of several houseboat
weekends on Cumberland Lake. They also visited Joan's
sister in St. Louis in September and then Martha and family
came to Joan's for Thanksgiving. Joan found it quite re-
vealing to feed a house full of kids. She has had some MS
symptoms again this past fall, but not as bad as last time.
They planned a convention trip to LA in January and a
stop in Las Vegas while there. 1 should have put BB Smith
Stamats' bit near Nancy Moody's. BB and company now
have six horses. BB and another Easterner put on a horse
show and the Stamats boys did real well. Peggy Jones and
Guy Steuart gave a huge party in the Paradise Ballroom
of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington last September to
honor the 50th anniversary of the Guy Steuart Motor Com-
pany. Every imaginable delicacy and drink in never ending
abundance wrote one of the guests in her glowing account
of what a grand time she had. It must have been really
wonderful.

As you may remember, I re-took the Red Cross Water
Safety Instructor's course last spring— it's a lot harder at
33 than it was at 19! Then I ran the swim program for a
private day camp near here. I found it a bit much, what
with all those children all day everyday, plus my own
house and children, but I sure got a good tan! Then in
August, just as we were packing for our vacation, our
youngest, John, then 2 and a half had a freak fall in a
grocery cart and received a very bad fracture of his left
thigh. He was in Mass. General Hospital in traction for
three weeks — we sent the older boys to my mother in
Virginia and I went into Boston everyday all day. Then
John was in a huge chest-to-toes body cast for six weeks
at home. It really went very well — he didn't complain at
all. Bill built a sort of rack with car seat hangers on the
back so he could eat with us. go in the car and lead a
somewhat normal existence. He began to walk ten days
after the cast was off and now doesn't even have a
limp unless you really look closely. We're very thankful
that it all turned out so well. My other activities continue
the same— Bill and I are in the extra choir for Christmas
and Easter. (Those of you who remember my voice can
stop snickering — when you have as little to work with as
our choir, every little bit helps.) I am VP of the Boston
SBC club — this seems to mean supply officer here, but I
do enjoy our meetings because we always have about a
dozen recent grads who work in Boston — they keep us
young! Recreationally I bowl still (recently a 213 and a 550
series for those of you who know the sport) and we have
just acquired a Doberman Pinscher puppy who is the light
of my life.

Well, keep those cards and letters comin' in. We
'predate ever' little bit!

1956

Class Secretary: Betsy Meade Hast-
ings (Mrs. Donald M.), 373 Redland
Road, N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 30309

MARRIAGE:

Elizabeth L. Meade to Donald M. Hastings, Jr., July 8, 1967

BIRTHS:

To Meredith Smyth Grider, a daughter, Meredith Smyth,

Aug. 12, 1966
To Mary Ann Hicklin Quarngesser, a daughter, Susan

Stuart, Oct. 3, 1966
To Sally Garrison Skidmore, a son, Charles Garrison, Dec.

3, 1966
To Mary Koonz Gynn, a daughter. Shelly Diane, Dec. 26, 1966
To Ella Prince Trimmer Knox, a daughter, Daisy Megowen,

Jan. 12, 1967

ADOPTIONS:

By Alice Guggenheimer Mackay, a daughter, Susan Ander-
son, born May 11, '66
By Jane Street Liles, a daughter, Mary Howerton, born

Oct. 25, '66

From now on, the Alumnae Magazine schedules 4 issues
per year, and will carry '56 news ordinarily in every
Spring and Summer issue. This year is an exception, there
being no class news in spring. Some photographs can
always be used, especially action pictures or family groups,
but they must be black and white. So do send yours.

From Westwood, Mass., the point farthest north, Alice
Guggenheimer Mackay writes that they are thrilled with
their two adopted children, Danny and Susan. She and
Roger spent a week skiing in Stowe, Vt. in Feb., came
home to repack, and flew to Mexico for a week as good
medicine for a Boston winter. Pryde Brown McPhee and
John are off this spring, with the four children, on a
five-month odyssey to Europe on business. John's second
book, The Headmaster, was published last Nov. and highly
acclaimed.

Out in Cleveland, Nancy Ettinger Minor and husband
are debating whether or not to give up their lovely two
acres for a convenient 60' lot in town. She is working with
retarded children, and she and Ral act as advisors to the
Jr. High youth group at church, which thinks she's just
too square to be still learning the frug. They play bridge
with Bobbie Bradshaw Sedgwick and Jim, who Nancy says
"are putting the finishing touches on a most gracious old
home in Cleveland Heights." Bobbie writes that their
whole family spent three weeks on a camping tour of the
Jackson Hole-Yellowstone area last summer, finding life
in a tent can be glorious — as long as it doesn't rain.

Sally Garrison Skidmore writes from Cincinnati of the
happy welcome given her new son by his older brothers,
Brad, 6, and Doug, 4. The dog and she, says Sally, are
the only females in the family. Debby Brown Stalker
wonders if she's written in yet of the arrival of their third
child, Marshall Everard, in November 1965. In July they
will move into their newly-bought early-1900's Georgian
house. Debbie is involved in Jr. League committee work in
Detroit, Planned Parenthood Board, Christmas Mart chair-
manship last fall, and "struggling with needlepoint and
orthodontists."

Parksie Carroll MulhoUand writes from Baltimore that
she's been enjoying Garden Club work. Her 8-year-old girl
Randie is in third grade with Brucie Bordley Gibb's child.
She found there's nothing like giving a tea for new SBC
students to make a 56'er feel like an antique. Parksie says
Marfie Trumbore Whittier, who lives a few blocks from her,
is doing a marvelous job as director of the Episcopal
Sunday School there.

Mary Ann Hicklin Quarngesser, also in Baltimore, re-
ports she's had a good response to the Fund Appeal so
far — especially considering the appeal came for some
• amid Christmas cards and for the rest amid Christmas bills.

Julie Jackson's card is a marvel which I pass on
verbatim: "1. Still 'plumbing with aplomb' and love it. 2.
Life wrapped around a bobbie pin until all the boys adopt
Gary Grant haircuts and J., in turn, cuts the tresses for a
Buster Brown. 3. Life is great, if you don't weaken — Ciao!"
A note from Macie Clay Nichols says she stays busy with
homework in Louisville, which means managing Martha,
4, and Robbie, 1 1/2; and extra-curricular affairs like League
and church work, serving as docent at one of Louisville's
historical homes, and bridge with Cissie Pfeiffer Ward,
Barbara Collis Rodes, Eve Altsheler Jay and Meredith
Smythe Grider. "We play bridge, talk a lot, and follow
Julie Child religiously on 'The French Chef.' " She says
Norma Davis Owen and Penn visited Ann Hodgin Williams
and John last summer and they had a mini-reunion. She
also said that for Christmas, Stuart gave Eve the keys to
the new house she wanted.

From Byrd Stone, a sample of quiet Virginia country
living: "I envy your life of leisure. How I would like to
try it! I'm taking an art class in Lynchburg, considering
taking on a Brownie troop in Amherst, working with AAUW
(Note: She is president), and am on 5 college committees
(assigned) including College Council which I enjoy and Ad-
missions which should be fun. The nursery school is boom-
ing and I have a good bunch of students in my courses."

Ginny Echols Orgain writes that their long search in
Richmond has ended — they've found a wonderful house
just across the Huguenot Bridge ("we can see the end of
the bridge, but can't see any water"). She estimates that
in 10 years they may be straight. Her son John Barbour
is in first grade; Frank is almost 2. Down toward the
coast in Franklin is Louisa Hunt Coker, where Mac is
with the Pulp Mill at Union-Camp and she is busy with
three children. They had a glorious trip to Boston in
November for a TAAPI (beats me!) convention — where she
sneaked away from the planned activities to have lunch
with Alice Mackay.

Our most seafaring classmate in Virginia seems to be
Helen Turner Murphy in Warsaw, who writes: "I do a
good deal of church work and am on the Board at St.
Margaret's School (which is fascinating) but I really have
become a waterman. I not only tong oysters but shuck
them and have become an avid fisherman. I continue to
raise raspberries but am gradually cutting down on flowers
because so much of the pretty weather finds me sailing or
fishing in the river or canoeing in our pond. We hope to
add on to our house soon and have room for visitors."

A note from Jane Street Liles in Raleigh reflects her
happy preoccupation with her and Jack's newest, an adopted
daughter, who really keeps her running. Frances Gilbert
Browne says that Herb is in practice by himself in Char-
lotte and finds it demanding but most satisfying. Their son
Howard has become an exuberant first-grader, Gilbert
is in kindergarten and Paul brightens up the house. Frances
is serving this year as ticket chairman for the Charlotte
Symphony.

Down to the Southernmost point! Mary Ann Edens
Wingfield and Jeff moved to Atlanta last fall in connection
with his position as Planning Director for the Atlanta
Region Metropolitan Planning Commission. He is responsible
for long-range planning for the five counties surrounding
and including Atlanta. Completing the family are Mike 6 1/2,
Amy 2 l/2„ and Sam Beagle ("a dumb but sweet female ■ —
you figure the name out!") Lelia Thompson Tarratus has
been an area chairman of Cancer Crusade, but her biggest
job this year has been placement chairman of the Jr.
League, responsible for placing 600 volunteers in various
community jobs. Dede Candler Hamilton has not only
been busy settling into a Georgian house acquired last
fall, but has just become President-elect of the Atlanta
Junior League (succeeding Caroline Sauls Hitz '58.) Laura
Hailey Bowen and Charlie are planning a week's vacation
this spring in Puerto Rico after her completion of two very
strenuous jobs — as women's unit chairman for United
Appeal this year and as president of the Jr. League last
year. Both she and Weesie Mandeville Grant have been
accused of proselyting for SBC since their fourth grade
daughters Laurie and Lochrane, having both had Miss Meade
as their teacher last year and Carole Dudley '65 this year,
talk now of going nowhere else but to SBC: Weesie's
youngest, Josephine, and Lelia's Helen are also classmates.

Marguerite Gear Wellborn is busy with two sons,
Marshall 6, and Charles 3, Jr. League work, and a husband
who has just become an assistant vice-president of the
First National Bank of Atlanta. Bette Forbes Laughlin re-
ports that she and Ed had a week in San Francisco last
fall, where Ed took his final boards after more than 10
years medical study — and received his passing marks the
same day all their children got their report cards. (We
assume the children passed too.) They moved into a new
house last fall.

Ann Stevens Allen and Bob were down for an Atlanta
Falcons football weekend in Dec, and I've visited them in
the stunning contempory they built in Spartanburg {all
balconies and curi-ed walls and soaring wood ceilings). Ann
has her 6- year- old riding a pony, and is taking an Oriental
Art course at Converse. What Byrd termed as "leisure" for
me this year isn't exactly anymore after starting the year
as a sabbatical from teaching, in order to finish my certifi-
cation course, I've held a 6 months secretarial job and am
busy with joyous preparation to being married July 8th.
Since Don is in the nursery business in Atlanta, we'll be
living here and I'll be learning to decipher words like
METASEQUOIA GLIPTOSTROBIDES.

1957

class Secretary: Marie Chapin Pumley
(Mrs. Allan), 6031 Corland Court, Mc-
Lean, Va. 22101

Fund Agent: Carolyn Westfall Monger
(Mrs. Philip) House G, County Garden
Apts., Pondview Rd., Rye, N.Y.

Our class group at the tenth reunion this June was
twenty-seven strong. I wish that all of you could have been
with those of us who did attend. We have hardly aged
at all. Of course, we refrained from standing too close to
those graduating seniors! Jody Raines Daniel and Marylew
Cooper Redd sported the deepest tans. Jody will soon be
building a new home outside Richmond. Marylew and
family live in Boca Raton, Florida.

We had a large turnout from Richmond including Sophie
Ames White, Peggy Liebert, Joy Peebles Massie, Jane Pinck-
ney Hanahan and Mary Anne Van Dervoort Large. Carter
Donnan McDowell and her husband have recently moved
to Richmond, and Dagmar Halmagyi Yon and family will
soon leave there for Quantico, Virginia. Other Richmond
news concerns Peggy Liebert who will be teaching religion
at St. Catherines School next year and Jane Hanahan who is
the President of the Richmond Junior League.

Anne Melton Kimzey, Babs Falge Openshaw, Lize Stev-
ens Jackman and I drove to Sweet Briar from Washington
on Sunday. We found Carolyn Westfall Monger, Mary Mc-
Carrick Holahan, Chips Chao Pai and Virginia Marks Paget
already on hand. Westie is now President of the Sweet
Briar Club in Westchester County, New York. Virginia and
Jim, a minister, had moved to St. Louis a few weeks before
reunion. That is closer than Kansas where they were before.
Perhaps in a few years we can lure them to the East
Coast. Chips is very busy with her two toddlers. She
conducted a post-picnic meeting at Miss Rogers' house. In
that lovely setting, we elected Peggy Liebert our new class
president. Our Fund Agent (who will hope for a good re-
sponse from all of us during the next five years) is Carolyn
Westfall Monger.

It was difficult to obtain news from everyone and to
remember it all at a later date. Those of you I missed can
always write me before the next issue goes to press. Some
of the happenings include a trip to Europe by Flo Barclay
Winston, who returned shortly before reunion time. Gina
Weed Brown has moved to Baltimore where she has con-
tinued her interest in dancing. She recently attended try-
outs for a group that may tour our area, and was chosen.
She will have a large S.B.C. cheering section if she does
come to Washington.

K. D. Moore Bowles joined us briefly and went on to
attend a wedding in Charlottesville. Chris Smith Lowry
came up from North Carolina and Suzie Neblett Stephens
from Tides Inn, Virginia. I understand that Jackie Ambler
Cusick and RalpTi planned a trip to Tides Inn a few
weeks after reunion. Jackie was not able to attend the
reunion because she had just returned from the hospital
with a new baby boy, their third. Carter Marshall Cusick.
Lee Haskell Vest came down from Connecticut, and in an
all too brief visit she said she is busy with two children,
and life in Connecticut. Carolyn Scott Dillon flew down to
Lynchburg from Rochester, New York, with her toddler,
Scott. After a visit to Lynchburg, she spent two days on
campus and I felt very fortunate to have two former
roommates, Scottie and Virginia, there. A third roommate,
Susan Ragland Lewis, could not attend because she, Jim and
family are moving shortly from Bethesda, Maryland, to
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where Jim will be the new Princi-
pal of the upper school at the Grosse Pointe University
School.

Margie Scott Johnson was the star of our step singing.
Westie somehow located a few of our old tunes and
patiently rehearsed us for our big moment. Marjie Whitson
Aude's father drove her down and she brought pictures of
her four darling girls and of the Aude's mammoth New
York farm. I wish my backyard compared with theirs.
Nancy Godwin Baldwin invited us to her home for mint
juleps after step singing. The next morning Nancy took
us on tour of her office and the rest of the building. We
proceeded to tour the Science Building, the new wing on
the library, the impressive Fine Arts building and then
spent all of our pin money at the Bookshop.

1958

Class Secretary: June Berguido James
(Mrs. Fleming III) 911 Klein Rd., Wil-
liamsonville, N.Y. 14221
Fund Agent: Lynn Prior Harrington
(Mrs. Stuart F.) 202 Mountain Ave.,
Ridgewood, N.J. 07450

BIRTHS: , -

James Donovan, born Dec. 1, 1965 to Ina Hamilton Hart

and Bob.
Jennifer Mary, born April 27, 1966 to Betsy Robinson Taylor

and Jim
Margaret Helena, born July 4, 1966 to Jean Lindsay de Sfreel

and Quentin
Dick Dowling III, born July 9, 1966 to Susan Davis Briggs

and Dick
Scott, born in August, 1966 to Cornelia Bear Givhan and Ed
A son bom in Sept. 1966 to Mimi Gan-ard Seawright and

Jimmy
Victoria Crockett, born Oct. 14, 1966 to Eleanor St. Clair

Thorp and Peter.
A son, born Dec. 26, 1966 to Dana Dewey Woody and Joe.

Ina and Bob Hart and their two sons moved into a
"new" house in Shaker Heights last July and are now
just blocks away from Biffy Fairfield Creighton. Ina and
Biffy have enjoyed meeting other alumnae at the meetings
of the Cleveland SBC Assoc. Bob Hart's profession as a
patent lawyer requires a good bit of work outside the
Cleveland area so he travels quite a bit. Jean and Quentin
de Streel are enjoying country living in Redding, Conn,
where they live in an Eng. Tudor house which boasts 5
working fireplaces. The house is on 4 acres with lots of
trees. Jean says they would welcome seeing any SB people
in the vicinity and have plenty of room for visitors. In
addition to their little daughter, now almost a year old,
the de Streels' projects include working on the house,
training a Gordon Setter for field trials, beagling and
teaching Sunday school. Quentin no longer has to com-
mute to NYC as he has been a Registered Rep. of Goodbody
& Co. (stockbrokers) in Stamford since last summer. Jean
hears occasionally from Sue K'Burg Kett, Sarah Benton
Baldwin (who recently moved for the 4th time in as
many years, this time from Calif, to Washington, D.C.)
and Myrna Fielding Hamel. The Hamels have been busier
than ever since Reg opened his own law office last Aug.
in Charlotte. Myrna sent news of Dana Dewey Woody's
little son; she said he is darling and weighed over 8 lbs.
In Oct. Myrna went with Reg to Richmond when he
had a case before the 4th circuit court there. She visited
Marsha Taliaferro Will who has gone back to college and
is majoring in biology. Marsha is very busy and happy,
and despite all her responsibilities which include college
courses and small children, Myrna reports that she looks
grand and not a day older than when at SBC. The same day
Myrna saw Patti Powell Pusey ('60) and enjoyed talking
with her and getting to know Patti's two children. In Nov.
the Hamels stopped by to see Julie Boothe Perry and
family when the former were visiting in Washington, D.C.
Julie and Charlie had a busy time during the political
campaign in Va. and feel her father's race for senator did
much to generate enthusiasm in the 'younger generation' to
run for public office in the state at all levels of gov't. Charlie
includes politics among his interests in addition to his law
practice. "Army" is in 1st grajje, Katherine in nursery
school and 2 1/2 -year -old Robin stays home, so Julie
always has plenty to keep her busy at home in addition
to her other activities.

Susan Davis Briggs went back to work after "Dow"
was born last July but quit after 2 mos. and is very happy
being a housewife. Adrienne is now 3, Susan leads a
Church study group and is pres. of the Birmingham SBC
Alumnae Assoc. Dick is on the faculty at the Medical
School and considering going into private practice.

Libby Benedict Maynard and Erv have 3 children, two
of whom are redheads. Elizabeth is in 2nd grade. Benjamin
in kindergarten and John is 3 1/2. Erv is involved in an
experimental ministry, Flint (Mich.) Industrial Mission. Last
June Time had an article on industrial missions which in-

cluded some quotes from Erv about the work he does.
Libby has worked with a coop, nursery, the League of
Women Voters with special emphasis on their welfare study,
and the Democratic party. She and Erv both ran for Pre-
cinct delegates (and probably were elected. At the time she
wrote Libby pointed out they live in a Republican precinct
so there was little opposition). Last summer she planned
to begin studies in the fall at the Univ. of Mich. School
of Social Work, at first on a part-time basis.

In June I received a wonderful letter from Cathy Hill
Loth from Santiago, Chile where they have now lived for 3
years. Both daughters were born there: Jennifer Anne on
July 3, 1964 and Christina Catharine Feb. 20, 1966. Cathy's
activities have included riding, ballet lessons, gardening,
charity work and she has traveled quite extensively in South
America. She and Dick spent a week skiing in Partillo and
another 3 weeks in the Southern Chilean Lake Country
which compares favorably with Switzerland. Cathy wrote
that Chile also has spectacular beaches. The Loths have
also visited Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay;
Asuncion, Paraguay; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
They spent a week on the Copacabana Beach in the "fan-
tastic" city of Rio. Then this summer they traveled north,
all the way to the U.S. stopping off for a week and renting
a house near Montego Bay, Jamaica. They had planned to
spend some time with Dick's family in Rushford, N.Y. and
leave the children there while they went to NYC for a week
and then all go to Denver to see Cathy's family. Their
plans were disrupted by the airline strike and the sudden
death of Cathy's stepmother, who raised her, so their visit
home was very different than anticipated. While Cathy was
in Western N.Y. she saw Stephanie Butan Profaci who
was a neighbor of ours for a brief period. Stephanie moved
to Williamsville last spring and then 2 days after Christmas
they moved to a farmhouse and several acres in West
Falls, N.Y. While they were in this area we managed to
get together several times. After graduation Stephanie
worked for awhile in NYC as a receptionist then returned
to Madrid under a Middlebury plan and received her
master's degree in Spanish. She came back to the U.S.,
taught Spanish in a Long Island high school and married
I.J., who is in the garment industry. They moved from
Staten Island to Cairo, W. Va. where they bought an old
farmhouse on 15 acres and fixed it up. They had the plumb-
ing and heating systems installed and did much of the
other work, all the painting, etc. themselves. They both ride
and have a pony for the children (Chesa is nearly 5 and
Chris is 3). They expect to do a lot of work on their
"new" house too.

Another classmate I was happy to see last summer was
Judy Graham Lewis. Judy and Jim brought their 4 little
blond children to her mother's in Batavia for a few days
rest and vacation last June. Judy and her mother (Mary
Bristol Graham '26) brought the 3 little girls over for lunch
one day, leaving the menfolk at home. Mrs. Graham and I
couldn't get over how beautifully and happily Judy manages
and how busy she stays. In July, Judy took Stephen and
Beth with her to the Virgin Islands where Jim had gone
3 weeks before. It was a nice trip but not a vacation for
Jim as he was entirely responsible for 15 young people. An
example of the kind of responsibilities Judy has as the wife
of the Annapolis chaplain is that in Sept. she and Jim
entertained 122 plebes at a picnic at one of their parishioners'
homes. (Judy's mother told me about that. Judy tells of
how much time she has now that only the twins are home
in the morning since Steve in is 1st grade and Beth attends
a nursery school from 9-12.) Later in the summer we had a
visit from Alice Morris Caskell ('59) and Ronald on the last
lap of their trip by car from NYC to Mexico and back, via
Calif., the Pacific Coast and Canada. The week after their
return they sailed for Bristol where Ronald was to resume
teaching at the University and Alice was going to teach at
another college.

Other international travelers are Caroline Sauls Hitz
and Alex who got a big send off in NYC from Lynn Prior
Harrington, Penny Meighan Martin, Eleanor St. Clair Thorp
and Lee Cooper Robb and Teddy before they left for a
trip to Europe and North Africa last fall. Beedy Tatlow
Ritchie and Jack had a cross-country trip last summer when
they went to Calif., via Texas, for a convention. Beedy's
brother returned from Viet Nam before Christmas and they

had a family reunion in Scarsdale. Julia Olive Craig Brooke
is hoping to do some traveling this spring. Last year she
went up to NYC and while there enjoyed seeing Bob and
Joan Lamparter Downs and Nick and Dedie Anthony Coch
and their baby boy. Home in Jacksonville, in between
carpools ferrying her 3 and their friends about, J.O. has
occupied her time with Jr. League puppets, the chairman-
ship of the school carnival and the chairmanship of the
Heart Sunday Drive.

Joan Nelson Bargamin. Paul and the 2 boys moved from
Winchester to Richmond in January. Paul is still with the
Travelers Ins. Agency but not as a claims adjustor. As a
result of his passing the bar exam last June he has been
promoted to a regular job in the legal dep't. The Alex
McLeods are very happy with their recent move as they
are now settled in Nashville at "Taybarn" (Gaelic for
house on the creek), a 2-story red brick Georgian home on
4 acres. Dotsie wrote that the house is about 35 years old
and in perfect condition and there is a large creek running
through the property. Since Dotsie's response to my plea
for news of her activities was very interesting and literate
I will quote parts of it: "Knowing that time would be at a
premium once practice started, Alex and I did a fair
amount of traveling last year while he finished his resi-
dency and this year while he has been on a fellowship
working with cardiac surgeons. We had a grand trip down
through Natchez to New Orleans last March, enjoying
gardens, old homes and the enchantment of New Orleans.
In May we had a 2nd honeymoon at Sea Island and in
Oct. were able to combine vacation with medical meet-
ings in San Francisco. Now that we're so firmly rooted in
the soil and the bank, we'll be sunning by the creek, weeding
flower beds and mowing the lawn, and not regretting a
minute of it . . . the Jr. League has kept me busy taking a
series of art-slide lectures to the 6th grades in the various
public schools. We run a 6 -week program, the main pur-
pose of which is to expose the children to the arts and
try to show them what to look for." Dotsie also works one
day a week at one of the large local colored schools on a
program of cultural enrichment for "culturally deprived"
children. She sent along news of several other classmates
she keeps up with. Both Gertrude Sharp Caldwell and Peggy
Smith Warner live in Nashville and are married to doctors
also. Both are very active with the Jr. League and other
civic endeavors. The Caldwells are very much interested in
antiques and haVe done extensive studying in this field.
When Ben Caldwell isn't delivering babies he is often lec-
turing on antiques. The Caldwells have 2 little girls and
the Warners have 3 children. Dotsie wrote that "Nashville
sadly misses Cornelia Bear Givhan and Ed. We saw quite a
bit of them while Ed finished his residency here at Vander-
bilt. Cornelia and I played tennis a lot until the advent
of #5 Givhan when her exercises were curtailed. Her 4th
boy, Scott, was born late last summer after they returned
to Montgomery where Ed is now in practice. The other 4
Givhans are adorable; each a different and very delightful
personality." Dotsie also keeps in touch with Lois Seward
Kumpers who stays busy and happy in Frankfurt, Germany.
She and Axel take frequent weekend trips to different
places on the continent. In March the McLeods were looking
forward to a visit from Joanie Black and Keith Davidson
and their 3 little girls on their way from Midland, Mich,
to Florida to visit Joanie's mother.

We saw Susan Day Dean and Tom over New Year's.
They are living in a charming, cozy, little old house with
very thick stone walls, fireplace, wide plank floors, etc.
in Villa Nova, Pa. Tom is working on his doctorate from
Union Theological Seminary while teaching religion at
Temple Univ. Susan is taking courses toward a doctorate
in Eng. Lit. at Bryn Mawr College. She works Saturdays in
the children's room at the local library. Susan told me that
several days after Mimi Garrard Seawright's son was born
last Sept., Jimmy's sculpture was exhibited at a one man
show in NYC and Mimi was there for that big event in
their lives.

Marian Martin (Mrs. Thorpe Mealing) has been added
to the lost list and we'd be grateful if anyone knowing her
current address (the last one we had was St. Joseph, Mo.)
would send it to me or to the Alumnae Office.

1960

class Secretary: Mollie McDonald
Brasfield (Mrs. Evans B.) 6107 Howard
Rd., Richmond, Va. 22326
Fund Agent: Carolyn King Ratcliffe
(Mrs. Clyde H. Ill) 908 Ridge Top Rd.,
Richmond, Va. 23229

BIRTHS: J

To Judy Jenks Fraser, a son, Donald Porter, Dec. 1, 1966. " I
To Judy Barnes Agnew, a daughter, Alice Lynn, Oct. 10, 1966. |
To Martha Boyd Munson, a daughter, Frances Boyd, Oct.

29, 1966.
To Judy Cowen Jones, a son, Gregory Edmunds, Sept. 21,

1966.
To Barbara Beam Denison, a daughter, Dorothy (Dolly),

Dec. 20, 1966.
To Carter Nichols Marsh, a daughter, Elizabeth Carter,

Jan. 1967.
To Dotty Westby Moeller, a daughter, Kristen Read, April

2, 1966.
To Lee Cullum Clark, a son, James Howard Cullum.
To Renate Weickert Hixon, a son, Eric, March 26, 1966.

HELP! THEY'RE LOST! Please let me know if you
have the address of any of the following:

Alice Butler, Mrs. Seth Mundell.

Annie-Laurie Martin, Mrs. Patrick Carlton.

Patricia Ann Chumley,-. Mrs. Stephen Sewell.

AND NOW FOR THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Carolyn
Gough Harding and Richard are enjoying life and skiing in
Montreal, Canada. They hope that those from the class of
'60 visiting Expo '67 will get in touch with them. Carolyn is
teaching English and Richard is with the American Con-
sulate. They will be moving again in October but don't
know where yet. Kathy Knox Ennis, husband Dick, daughter,
Katherine Anne, 1 1/2, and Timothy, the Great Dane, will
be in Santo Domingo for another year. They love the
climate and are delighted to be so close to the U.S.A.
for a change.

STATESIDE NEWS FROM WEST TO EAST: ■

WASHINGTON: Adrianne "A" Massie Hill, husband, |
Mai, and the boys, young Mai and Gordon, moved to
Seattle in January. They love the city and their new home.
They have even found time to go skiing at Crystal Mountain
just 2 hours from their home.

CALIFORNIA: Judith Berkeley Harrison is living in
Redding. Husband Bill is with U.S. Plywood and although
they like northern California, they hope to be transferred
back East in the not too distant future. A mother of four
children, Lee, 6 1/2, Barbara, 5, Susan, 3 1/2, and Sharon,
10 mos., Judy still finds time to take evening courses to
earn her teaching credentials.

NEW MEXICO: From Santa Fe, Peggy Cook Montgom-
ery writes that Seth is busy practicing law and she taking
care of the two boys. Peggy has become a real westerner
and can even cook deer, elk, antelope, and ducks!

COLORADO: Starr Bullis Phillips sends news from
Colorado Springs that Ragan will be released from the
Air Force on August 9th. Starr, Ragan, and the two boys
will be moving to a new home in the fall.

KANSAS: From Topeka, Shirley Hayman Sudduth
writes that her family of three and community activities
keep her busy. Bob and Linda are in school and Peter
will begin kindergarten in the fall. Outside the home Shirley
is active with the Junior League's Next-to-New Sale, will
be secretary of her PTA this fall, and is taking Great
Books training. ;

MISSOURI: Betsey Belisle Moreland and family are
now living in Kansas City. Betsey is busy with the Junior
League's Thrift Shop.

TEXAS: Lee Cullum Clark, husband, Jim, and son,
Cullum, are taking a leave of absence from Dallas to be in
Austin where Jim is serving his first term in the state legis-
lature. Lee says her new life is exciting. She even finds
time to lobby for liquor-by-the-drink while strolling Cullum
in the park! She also has enjoyed visits with Maline Gilbert

McCalla. From Dallas, Louise Phinney Caldwell writes that
she has formed a corporation, "The Clever Needlewoman,
Inc.", which distributes custom needlework in the Dallas
area. The Caldwells traveled in England last summer and
then returned to help campaign for Lee's husband Jim.

TENNESSEE: Alice Jones Torbett is busy editing a page
of the Johnson City Paper each week. Mary Anne Claiborne
Johnston and family are back in Nashville after 2 years in
Germany. In June, Mary Anne, Dick, and their boys,
Richard, 4, and Claiborne, 2, will be moving to Boston
where Dick has a 1-2 fellowship at Children's Hospital.

KENTUCKY: In Louisville, Janie Haldeman Tyrrell took
time out this winter from drying noses and distributing
aspirin to Jane, 15 mos., and Gerry, 4, to visit her parents
in Naples, Florida. Janie also writes that Mary Laird visited
Heidi Wood Huddleston in Bowling Green.

ALABAMA: Rhett Ball Thagard writes from Birmingham
that she and Tommy stopped by SBC last spring on the
way to Tommy's fifth law school reunion at U. Va. Then
they came to Richmond to see Patti Powell Pusey and Ann
Catling Honey. Rhett is the SBC alumnae representative
for Birmingham. She also had a poem written for the
Birmingham Junior League magazine reprinted in Charlotte,
North Carolina's Junior League magazine which is edited by
Becky Towill McNair.

FLORIDA: Renate Weickert Hixon and family have
moved to Jacksonville after 6 1/2 years in New York City.
Libby Dew writes from Daytona that she is nursing in a
hospital and enjoying the beach and trailer living.

GEORGIA: From the Atlanta girls we have found that
Judy Barnes Agnew is busy with new daughter, Lynn, but
still finds time to visit with Tila Farrell Grady, Linda Sims
Grady, and Nina Wilkerson Bugg. Tila is bulb chairman
for Atlanta and will be chairman of the Junior League's
Nearly New Shop in the fall. Barbara Bowen is constructing
and teaching an educational television series for the sixth
grade and enjoying learning about t.v. teaching.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Claire Banner Stuart, husband,
Gene, and daughter, Carol, 2, have moved to Greenville.
Gene is sales manager of the Greenville branch of J. M.
TuU Metals Co. The Stuarts have been on the move quite a
bit — from Atlanta to Tampa, to Jacksonville, back to
Atlanta, and now to Greenville! Nancy Corson Gibbs, Joe,
and their two daughters are now living in Columbia.

NORTH CAROLINA: Dotty Westby Moeller, Bob and
daughter, Kristen, are back in the states. Bob is a research
associate at Duke University. They spent last September
through January in Paris where Bob worked on his thesis
and Dotty studied printmaking. From Charlotte, Charlyne
Grimes writes that she travels whenever possible. Last year
it was a trip to Greece and this year she is taking a 2
week Carribean cruise.

WASHINGTON, D. C: Barbara Beam Denison and fam-
ily moved into their first home in October. Then George
and their two daughters welcomed Beam and their new
daughter, Dolly, home on Christmas Eve. George is writing
for the Readers' Digest and working on a political novel.
Beam is doing volunteer t.v. work for the Junior League.
Donna Kerkam Grosvenor and Gil spent 2 weeks skiing in
Vail, Colorado, where they had a reunion with Jane Riddle
Lancaster and husband, John. In July Donna and Gil are
leaving for Afghanistan to do a story for the National
Geographic and will be gone for 3 months.

MARYLAND: Joyce Cooper Toomey writes they have
moved into a new home in EUicott City. Joyce is teaching
third and fourth grades in a parochial school. Husband
Charley is finishing his second year of an orthodontic per-
ceptorship. They saw Lee Del Greco Wood at Joyce's bro-
ther's wedding. He married Lee's sister-in-law, a SBC girl,
Tay Wood.

PENNSYLVANIA: From Stafford, Lura Coleman Wamp-
ler writes that they have moved into their first house.
She plans to retire from teaching after this year.

NEW JERSEY: Margot Sauer Meyer and daughter,
Amy, are home in Short Hills while Bob is in Vietnam.
Nancy Beekman Carringer is in line for congratulations from
the class of '60. She received her Sweet Briar degree last
June with her whole family in attendance, including her
two sons and her daughter. She is now taking courses
for her teaching certificate.

CONNECTICUT: Judy Jenks Eraser writes that they
have moved to Westport. Judy is area bulb chairman for
SBC. Dottie Grant Halmstad has moved into a new home
in Ridgefield which they helped to design. They traveled
to Holland and Scandinavia last fall.

MASSACHUSETTS: From Marblehead comes news that
Betsy Buechner Morris also has moved but into a 250- year-
old house on the water. Betsy, Monty, and the boys, Peter
and Tommy, are looking forward to warm weather and
sailing.

VIRGINIA: In Waynesboro, Judy Cowen Jones, Mac,
their two daughters, and their four female dogs were de-
lighted with the male addition to their family. Judy still
finds time in her busy schedule to play tennis. In Richmond,
Martha Boyd Munson last June completed her seventh year
of teaching kindergarten and also received her BS degree.
She is now a full time "Mom" and loves it. Patti Powell.
Pusey is busy with family and community activities. The
Puseys have just added a Shetland Sheep dog to their
household. Carolyn King Ratcliffe is taking tennis lessons
along with her many other activities. Evans and I are set-
tling back down after a cruise in the Bahamas with Suzy
Neblett Stephens '57 and husband Bob Lee. It was a
glorious ten days!

My thanks to all of you who answered my cards. We
will have news of the class of '60 in the spring and summer
issues only so PLEASE send birth announcements and other
newsy notes to me as they happen.

1962

Class Secretary: Anne Allen Symonds
(Mrs. J. Taft) Glen Coin, Alpine, N.J.
Fund Agent: Ann Parker Schmalz
(Mrs. Robert N.), 110 Linden St., New
Haven, Conn. 06511

Twenty of us returned for our Fifth reunion and had a
wonderful time visiting with one another and seeing with
great approval the new Connie Quion Science Building and
Chapel. Jocelyn Palmer Conners (who brought Tim, a very
well behaved three-month-old son), acting Reunion Chair-
man in place of Mary Sturgeon Biggs (who was finding
out about the time consuming duties of motherhood in
Calif.), announced at the Alumni Luncheon that our class
was busy "building our families and everything". As indi-
cated by the last column listing births this was appropriate
and also points to the hope that perhaps more of you will
be out of circumstances when the tenth rolls around and
will be able to get back to SBC. All present will readily
attest that it was well worth the effort to return. These
people were Ginger Borah Slaughter, Anne-Bruce Boxley,
Betsy Cate Pringle, Chris Christie Cruger, Nancy Fleshman
Bowles, Debbie Glazier Michael, Molly Harris Jordan, Dulcie
Heintz Germond, Ray Henley Thompson, (exhibiting her
newly attained skill by sporting a Thompson original),
Peggy Johnson Curtis (who had intriguing model pictures
of her proposed home), Mary Louise Kelly Moore (whose
son Mark and husband George we met on Sunday night),
Puddin Newberry Coons, Barbie Ross Goode (who came with
albums of pictures of daughter Anne to show us as well
as to Mrs. Pannell who knows Anne as her namesake). May
Belle Scott Rauch, Julia Shields, Adel Shinberger Jesdale,
Bettye Thomas (who currently is a secretary, tutor, typist,
fill-in office worker, and commuter when possible between
Lynchburg and Rome), Jo Wheatley Overby (she came to
the Alumni Luncheon with six-year-old daughter Brooke),
Mary Jane Schroeder Oliver, Jocelyn and myself.

We started Sunday night off with cocktails and picnic
fare at the Daniels. During Reunion, we all found our way
to Tommy's at one time or another and to our great dis-
appointment found Mutt has joined the Merchant Marine and
Hazel has left, New Officers elected were Jocelyn as Presi-
dent (she did a splendid job on the scrapbook which was
fun to read). Anne Parker Schmalz, Fund Agent, and me,
by process of elimination (jobless and childless) as Sec-
retary.

In doing some telephoning for S.B. before Reunion, I
discovered that Ginny Sortor Myers lives in Closter, N.J.
next door to me, and that we shop at the same market
but we have yet to run into each other. Judie Hartwell
Brooks, living in Yonkers, just across the Hudson from us.

is busy with her eight- month- old son David and was ter-
ribly sorry to have missed coming back. Leslie Heye Quar-
rier had to forego a return to SBC in favor of Sid's gradu-
ation from Wesleyan. They have just bought a house near
Old Lyme, Conn, overlooking the Conn. River. Barbara
Sublet! Guthery, John, and five-year-old Katie are moving
from New Jersey to Charlotte, having been transferred
by American Cyanamid.

Anne-Bruce Boxley kindly sent me the scrapbook to
which many of you responded and sent marvelous pictures.
Betty Altgelt, now Mrs. Lloyd R. Campbell, is living in New
York and working as a systems analyst for Computer
Applications, Inc. as well as being mother to eight-year-old
twin stepdaughters Linda and Lisa. Marcia Armstrong Scholl
is living in New York and working for IBM as a technical
writer. Patsy Cox Kendall said she was disappointed to
have to miss Reunion but was involved in a family wed-
ding. Leaving fifteen-month -old daughter Sheldon at home,
she and Skip skied for ten days at Mt. Tremblant in
Canada this winter. Patsy has been doing volunteer work
at a Guidance Clinic for emotionally disturbed adults and
children as well as through the Boston Junior League. Nancy
Hudler and Gerd Keuffel had a splendid vacation this spring
in Spain and Majorca. Nancy appeared several weeks ago
on the Match Game, a nationally televised quiz show.

Mimi Lusk Deithorn (Mrs. Milton E. Jr.) is about to
celebrate her first anniversary. Being a buyer for skiwear
and equipment in Pittsburgh has meant two European buy-
ing trips, traveling in France, Germany, Austria, Switzer-
land, Finland, Denmark, and Italy. She reports it's pure
pleasure traveling on someone else's money. Milt, a ship-
ping supervisor, is attending night school three times a
week, making their life a bit hectic with her late hours at
the store. Peg Pulis wrote that she is doing free lance
advertising art work as well as studying art with the hope
of beginning a career in medical art this fall. Adel Shin-
berger Jesdale, Bill and Todd, three and a half, are living
in Newton, Mass. Bill is teaching at Brown. Adel will
have a new neighbor this fall when Mary Layne Shine
Gregg, Bob, Clark, Andrew, and a new daughter Mary Court-
ney move to Providence where Bob will work on a Ph.D.
at Brown.

Mary Steketee MacDonald and Jerry moved to the
Schenectady area last December, courtesy of General Elec-
tric. Mary writes they bought a ranch type house in the
country and she has been busy planting and gardening.
Alice Warner went to France this past April for her vaca-
tion. She is still working for the Wilmington Trust Com-
pany as a programmer.

This fall new residents of C'ville will be_Anne Dunlap
Youmans, George, George Jr., and Cleveland. George will
be attending Graduate School at U.Va. Anne sent mar-
velous pictures of their children and of George and herself
(looking very shapely in a bikini) while vacationing in
Hawaii. Also in Charlottesville are Julie Shields, Mary
Louise Kelly Moore, Sally Scherer Hawthorne (Mrs. Henry),
and Dulcie Heintz Germond (Mrs. Edward S.). Dulcie's hus-
band, having been released as a captain in the Marines in
September, 1966, is in Business School. Dulcie's two children
are Edward S. Ill (Teddy) and Amanda Sloane, five months.
She had to return to C'ville on Monday night in order
to organize a birthday party for Teddy on Tuesday!

Linda Emery, a special education teacher and training
supervisor in Des Moines wrote of her work at the Des
Moines Child Guidance Center and the Day Hospital where
she has been doing an extensive amount of work under
Federal grants.

From California came word from Joan Morse Sather.
She and Kent live in San Francisco where he is a market
researcher, Joan is teaching Fashion Merchandising at
Patricia Stevens. This includes such subjects as Retailing,
Clothing Design, Accessories, and Costume History to girls
seeking fashion careers. She and Kent find snow and
water skiing both pleasurable and necessary as exercise
what with all the wonderful restaurants in the Bay area.
Mary Sturr Cornelius and Dr. Jim are enthusiastic owners
of a Cal 20 and sail every spare moment on the San
Francisco Bay. Jim is currently in his second residency
specializing in radiology. Mary is teaching kindergarten.
Gwen Weiner is also living in San Francisco where she
is doing free lance interior designing (current project being

her parent's home), and studying piano and ballet. When
she wrote she was in the process of regaining her health
after a bout with hepatitis which she thinks may have been
contacted in Greece last September.

Puddin Newberry Coons came the farthest for Reunion.
Her husband Richard will be in his final year of medical
school next fall at the University of Texas in Galveston
but finds time to practice a little law, having attained his
law degree before Medical School. Puddin has been teach-
ing for the last three years. This past spring I went to the
christening of Alexandra Carter, daughter of Heather Edgar
and Bill Carter. They will be moving from Houston to
Woodstock, Vt. this fall as Bill will be attending the Amos
Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth in
Hanover. Pat Perkins Wolverton, husband David, sons Alan
and Kirk, live in Wichita Falls, Texas where David works
for the First Wichita National Bank. Pat reported that
Brooke Hamilton Cressall and Bill are parents of a new
son born last April.

Other new parents are Rosalie Smithy Mcintosh and
Nash whose son Horace Smithy was born May 26th. Rose
was back working two weeks later at the Horse's Mouth,
the dress shop she and her aunt own. Buying trips bring
her to New York about twice a year. Alice AUew Smyth
and Ross had a daughter Alice Elliot born May 21st. James
Jackson Biggs was born to Mary Sturgeon and Jim on May
25th. And on June 18th William Clarence Boyd IV greeted
parents Eve Pringle and Bill.

In closing I think it appropriate to express thanks on
behalf of our class to Betsy Pearson Griffin for doing a
really terrific job as secretary, Nancy Hudler Keuffel for
being a successful fund raiser, and to new mama Sturgeon
for carrying out her duties as Madame President up until
her trip to the hospital.

1964

Class Secretary: Jane Bradley Wheeler,
4300 Roswell Rd., N.E., Apt. 13,
Atlanta, Ga.

Fund Agent: Claire Hughes Knapp,
501 W. Adams, Fairfield, Iowa

Engagements: - ' -

Grace Mary Garry to Frederick Charles Wilbur of Rockland,

Maine
Marielyce Barclay to Michael Lee VVatner
Alice Fales to Dick Stewart of Cleveland

Marriages :

Susan Wienfeld to Bert Dillon, June 4, 1966

Frances Utley to Frank Shyjka, November 19, 1966

Joan Bartol to Christopher S. Peeples

Joan Moore to Nicholas Biddle, Jr.

Mary Ball Payne to John B. Morton, Jr., August 13, 1966

Births:

To Jane Bradley Wheeler, a daughter, Mary Bradley Wheeler,

Feb. 5, 1967
To Pam Larson Baldwin, a -son, Monroe Glass Baldwin, III,

Feb. 1967
To Harriet Houston Shaffer, a son, Charles M. Shaffer, III

Dec. 14, 1966
To Ebbie Evans Edwards, a son, Christopher Thomas Ed-
wards, May 22, 1966
To Frances Johnson Lee, a son, Christopher Lee

With the arrival of a little girl in the Wheeler house-
hold, the news column for the class of '64 has taken a
back seat. In the future, our class notes will appear only
in two magazines each year — the spring and summer issues.
The gang in N.Y.C. continues to have fun and make
exciting headlines. Margaret Thouron and Susan Dwelle are
taking a brief respite from city life and plan to leave in
May for five weeks of travel in Greece and Spain. Before
departing for Europe, Susan will spend April in Jacksonville.
Frances Hanahan is recovering from a fractured ankle —
the result of a skiing weekend at Sugarbush, Vt. After
spending two years in Monrovia, Liberia, with the Peace
Corps, Emily Ward traveled in other African countries and
in Europe before returning to the States. She is now living
in N.Y.C. Tappy Lynn moved to the Big City recently and

is working for the Cooper Union Museum. Tina Patterson
Sands is completing her BA at Hunter College after teach-
ing at Brearey School last year, and attending school at
night. Both Thomas and Judy Dunn Spangenberg are involved
in advertising in N.Y.C.

Margie Fleigh and Ginny Hamilton are sharing an
Apt. Margie is a reverse commuter; she drives to Greenwich
every morning to teach American History to juniors and
seniors at Rosemary Hall. She plans to teach there again
next year. Hedi Haug is still working at S.&H. Green
Stamps. After their wedding July 22nd, Marielyce Barclay
and Michael Watner plan to honeymoon in Puerto Rico
and St. Thomas and will live in New Milford, N.J., where
Michael will be near his job with a merchandizing and
retailing firm. Anne Day moved to N.Y.C. in Sept. and has
been working at Harper & Row in children's books since
Dec. Sarah Townsend is working for the advertising firm,
Wells, Rick, Green, Inc. Robin and Caroline Keller Gilliland's
most recent address (as far as I know) is 116 E. 37th St.
Carroll Tiernan is living at 428 W. 44th St., and is working
at Holly Stores, Inc. as a personnel manager.

When I last heard from Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer in
May, she wrote that John and she were looking forward to
a trip to Bermuda in the fall to get away from the academic
life in Charlottesville. Kit Snow was graduated from George
Washington Univ. with a M.A.T. in June, 1965, and taught
a second grade class last year in Maryland. Susan Bronson
Craft is teaching eleventh grade English at Penncrest High
School while Ed is working toward his M.B.A. at Wharton
School of Finance. They are living outside Philadelphia.
After both graduating the same day from the U. of Md.
Kurt and Susan Shierling Riegal moved to Los Angeles where
he's an Assistant Professor at U.C.L.A. and she's teaching
the third grade in a L.A. city school. Although she stays
busy with Ted and Ben, Angle Whaley LeClercq finds time
to teach in the public schools of Columbia, S.C. Fred is
practicing law there. Lynn Youngs is still teaching at the
Hockaday School in Dallas, but she plans to do a year of
graduate study beginning in the fall. Both Oscar and Barbara
Bums Persons are in school: she is teaching at a public
school in Atlanta, and he will graduate from Emory Univ.
Law School in June. Oscar has accepted a job with a
large law firm here. Bert and Susan Wienfeld Dillon are
living in Columbia, S.C. where he is on the faculty of the
U. of S.C. and she is teaching high school. They met at
Duke Univ. when he was studying for his Ph.D. and she
for her M.A. They were married last June.

Diane Hatch is teaching Latin at Mary Washington
College in Fredericksburg, Va. and plans to begin work
toward a Ph.D. at U.N.C. this summer. She will return to
Mary Washington next fall. Carol Eckman Taylor writes
from Grosse Pointe, Michigan that she enjoys teaching his-
tory and economics. In addition to teaching, Doots Duer
Leach is working toward her M.A. at the U. of Pa. Walter
will receive his graduate degree in Architecture from the
U. of Pa. in June. Nancy Arni is in her second year of
Medical school at George Washington Univ. and plans to
work as an assistant in anesthesiology in a hospital in
Salisbury, Md. Anne Booth will receive_her M.A. in classics
from Brown Univ. in June; she concentrated on classical
Archaeology while there. Anne spent six busy months last
year in Europe excavating and studying in Southern Italy,
and studying at the summer session of the American School
of Classical Studies in Athens. Anne's thesis is being pub-
lished in a Belgian Classics journal! Puss Prichard writes
that she is on a teaching fellowship (Honors Research Fel-
lowship) at Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. for an M.S. in Math.
After receiving her M.A. at Duke Univ. last June, Grace
Mary Garry is working toward her Ph.D. now. She passed
her prelims and is now studying for her dissertation,
which will be in Shakespeare. While at Duke, Grace
Mary met Fred Wilbur who is also a graduate student, and
they plan to marry June 9th. 'fhey will live in Durham next
year while Grace Mary is studying for the second year
under a Danford fellowship.

Pam Hellmuth Weigandt and Ralph spent last summer
traveling in Europe and returned to Lexington in Sept.
for his second year of law school at W.&L. Pam is still
working as a caseworker at the Rockbridge County Welfare
Dept. Nancy Hall Green writes that she and Holcombe will
be returning to Atlanta after his graduation in June from

U. Va. Law School; he will be associated with a prominent
firm here. Also heading for Atlanta will be Harriet Houston
Shaffer with the two Charlies — after Charlie senior finishes
law school at Chapel Hill. When I heard from Ebbie Evans
Edwards in Feb., she and Tom were anxiously waiting to
hear whether he would remain at U. Va. for his internship
or whether they would be off to Strong Memorial in
Rochester, N.Y. After two and a half years in the army,
Lane and Leasie Scott Porter moved from Oberammergau,
Bavaria, to Washington, D.C. in April. Also living near
Washington are Martin and M.C. Elmore Harrell, who have
moved recently into a townhouse in Rockville, Md. Martin
is project engineer for the Navy's "Man in the Sea" pro-
gram, and he has been selected as an aquanaut to par-
ticipate in Sea Lab III for two weeks next fall. He will
be anchored 430 feet deep off the coast of Calif, for two
weeks. M.C. spends a lot of time doing volunteer work at
Junior Village, a home for dependent children run by the
Dept. of Public Welfare. Ann Ritchie Sornson writes that
she is the proud mother of two sons, Eric and Lee. After
being the first couple to marry in Sweet Briar Memorial
Chapel last Aug., John and Mary Ball Payne Morton moved
to Wilmington, Del. where he is a chemical engineer at
Hercules, Inc. Linde Lowdon has been Mrs. William Mullis
since June 1965 and is living in Philadelphia, where her
husband is in his third year of medical school at the
Univ. of Pa. Amy Freund Green has moved with husband
Bob and their infant scSn to Dayton, Ohio where he is
stationed at Wright Patterson A.F.B. Lorna Macleod Smith
(Mrs. Stpehen A.) stays busy with two children, Megan and
Geoffery, she is also aspiring to sell real estate after
receiving her broker's license in Dec. Skipper and Claire
Hughes Knapp are living in Fairfield, Iowa now, but plan
to move to Pittsburgh in October. Mindy Newlin Powell
graduated from Pa. State Univ. in June, 1963 and married
John Powell of Ardmore, Pa. the following May. Since
John completed Princeton Theological Seminary last June,
they have been living in Livingston Manor, N.Y., where he
is the minister of the Presbyterian Church. While her hus-
band was in Viet Nam last year, Bonnie Mount Grimsley
lived in Warrenton, Va. — awaiting the birth of their second
child. The last letter I received from Wendy Thomas Hicks
was from Chicago, where John was a sales managerial
trainee at Continental Can, and Wendy was working for an
advertising agency. Since then, they have moved to Omaha,
Nebraska. Marilyn Dunlap Laird traveled several months
last year with husband Charles and spent the remainder of
the year supervising the remodeling of an old home in
Paris, Tenn. They finally moved in Christmas Eve. Lynn
Williams Tompkins worked as a medical-surgical R.N. while
husband Tom spent a year in Viet Nam. Now he is at
home doing an Internal Medicine Residency at W. Va.
Medical Center. They have one son, Gregory Robert.
Susie Glasgow Brown writes that she and Allen have moved
from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami. He is an engineer with Fla.
Power and Light Co. Before they moved, Susie worked as
an editorial assistant for a publishing co., in Ft. Lauderdale.
Josephine England Redd is utilizing that ol' degree from
S.B.C. to tutor some students in Math. She and Uhland are
still living in Florence, Ala. Ann Horak Shafer stays busy
with civic activities in Winchester, Ky., where Jim has
opened his own law office. He was recently appointed
Corporation Counsel for the city. Since their marriage last
April, and Jamaican honeymoon, Rosamond Sample Brown
and husband Harry have been living in Little Rock, where
he is stationed in the Air Force. Rosamond teaches French
part-time in two schools there.

From the girls living out of the country, I hear that
Nancy Lynah Stebbing received her degree from the Univ.
of Edinburg in July and spent the rest of the summer
traveling in Spain and France. She and Nowell spent three
weeks in Charleston last Christmas and hope to come back
to the U.S.A. for at least a year when he completes his
Ph.D. It sounds like Ann Harwood Scally is leading a
glamorous life in Lebanon spending the summers at the
beach, taking trips to the mountains to ski, and living in
an apartment overlooking the blue Mediterranean! She is
taking French lessons every day and modern dance twice
a week; she even finds time to do some modeling. Tuck
and Ann took a trip to Saudi Arabia in Feb. and planned
to go to Cyprus in the Spring and Greece this summer.

They would love to have any S.B.C. visitors who are trav-
eling in that area. Sheila Carroll CoQprider and Chuck are
living in the Philippines, where he is stationed at Clark Air
Base. He flies the F-102 in South East Asia. During their
free time, they travel in the area as much as possible.

Alice Fales has been working two years for the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, but she plans to quit before
the 90th Congress adjourns because of her marriage this
summer to Dick Stewart. After a honeymoon around-the-
world, they plan to live in Washington. Dick is a lawyer
aiid has been a clerk at the Supreme Court for a year.
Also in Washington, D.C. is Ginny deBuys, who is a
secretary with the F.M.C. Corp., a large manufacturing co.
that makes anything from the rayon in a dress to the
MI13's used in Viet Nam. Charlotte Turner is working
for an Alabama congressman in D.C. She has received her
M.A. in speech and forensics and hopes to return to
teaching at the college level after her marriage this summer.
Martha Benn has been working for Planning Research Corp.
since last fall when she returned from a vacation in the
Middle-East and Mediterranean.

When I received a post card from Sharon Van Cleve
last Christmas she said that she planned to return to
Washington after her work with the Peace Corps language
program in India. David and Jackie Nicholson Wysong's
new address is 1409 Ruffner Rd., Alexandria, Va. Guy and
Tria Pell Dove have moved from N.Y.C. to Washington, D.C.

Anne Stanley has been living in Calif, since last summer
and is working at the U.C.L.A. medical center for a
pediatric heart specialist involved in research and open
heart surgery on children with congenital defects. Nancy
Gillies has taken a leave from nursing school and is work-
ing at Children's Hospital-Pittsburgh. Nancy Banfleld has a
job with Southern Bell Telephone Co. as a school recruiter-
going to various high schools in the Atlanta area to give
lecture-demonstrations to students. Aimee Gibson has re-
turned from two years spent in the Peace Corps doing com-
munity development work in Venezuela, and she is now
living in Atlanta working for the Office of Economic Op-
portunity. Aimee's job will entail making frequent trips to
S.C.

Mary Marsh is also working for O.E.O. in Atlanta.
Mary Peeples is a decorator at one of the large department
stores in Atlanta.

I have lost track of several classmates and would ap-
preciate anyone sending me the present addresses of: Kath-
erine Carberry, Stephanie De Camp, Jean Tubby, and Susan
Corwin Gary.

1966

Class Secretary: Shelley Turner Be-
noit,, 3 Sheridan Square, N.Y., N.Y.
Fund Agent: Juliet Baker, 6920 Wood-
side Place, Chevy Chase, Md.

The class of '66 — once the Playgirls of the Year — are
now the Married Girls, Working Girls, TraveUing Girls, or
Loafing Girls of '67. There are platoons of us in many
major cities —

Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington. And a
good many others may be located, along with recently ac-
quired husbands, at military bases across the United States
and around the world. Some are reasonably settled, others
at way stations — in mind as well as body. A greatly reward-
ing number, including many undaunted by marriage, are
nearing the end of their first year of graduate study. Here
are a few highlights.

I am an old married lady, living in Greenwich Village,
and working as a copywriter in the Promotion Department
at American Heritage Publishing Co., on Fifth Avenue.
Further uptown, Gracie Butler is comfortably ensconced
in a flashy 89th St. pad, from which she sallies forth

every day to do social work — tiring, but good pay.
Diane Girling, who lives on the same street, is en-
rolled at Katherine Gibbs, and will graduate at the
beginning of the summer, fully equipped for a top notch
job — although in her heart the stage is still IT. Also on
89th St. is Nancy Conkle, who is working at Bonwit Teller's.
Missy Spruance is also busy selling beautiful things; she's at
the Bermuda Shop. Way, way uptown is Randie Cutler, who
is a graduate student at Columbia U. She is continuing her
study of history in a somewhat more relaxed, but no less
dedicated, fashion. Meanwhile, downtown, Debbie Haslam Is
keeping her eye out for good things in the Wall Street
area where she works. So much for the Metropolitan area.

On Long Island, Midge Lundy, who graduated from
N.Y.C, is setting about becoming an English teacher.

The Boston-Cambridge area claims several of our number
both for work and graduate school. Pam Leary, who was
taking a secretarial course while I took Radcliff's Pub-
lishing Procedures Course last summer, is now working as
a production assistant in a Bostofi advertising agency. Cindi
Michele, who rooms with Pam is doing graduate study in
sociology. Susie Moorman has been a librarian at Harvard's
giant Widener Library. Meredith Aldrich Moodie is married
and doing graduate work in French.

In the nation's capital, Judy Baker is working as pro-
fessional assistant at the Montgomery Public Library of
Wheaton, and attending Catholic U. Library School. (Her
old roomie, Ireys, also goes to library school at night at
Columbia in N.Y.) Molly Trombly, was transferred to
Washington from Hawaii by the travel agency she works for.
Nancy Dunham will soon be finished with an onerous sec-
retarial course, and will then be eligible for all sorts of
exciting jobs.

Kathy Mockett is profiting from her mathematical genius
by working at RCA in Cherry Hill, N.J. in computer pro-
gramming.

The Riding Council rides again — this time for a living.
Sally Dunham, Kit Baker, and Abby Patterson, can be
found saddling up in Conn., New Jersey, and Florida, re-
spectively.

And now a roll call on some military wives. Jane
Patton Browning forfeited her job at Tiffany's (where Ellen
Baird is working, incidentally) and followed her husband,
first to Newport, R.I., then to the West Coast. Keenan
Colton Montgomery may be found, along with Chris, at
Ft. Meade in Laurel, Md. Tolly Greer Alexander gleefully
left Key West, Fla., where she had been teaching second
grade, to get married and follow her husband to Germany,
where they will live for more than a year — having so
cleverly gotten the orders switched from Korea!

Randie Miles Long is teaching school near Cornell U.
where her husband is a graduate student.

Anne Eberstadt is enjoying the green grass of Colorado,
where sTie is attending the U. of Colorado.

Mary Haskell, who is Vicky Chainski's strongest com-
petitor for the "Marco Polo Award", has returned from her
travels in India — her chief delight being the city of Gogo,
which is just what its name implies! Vicky is plotting an-
other global foray with her parents.

A word from the West Coast. Kathy Sheahan is work-
ing as librarian and tutor at the Ojai Valley School in
California, Peggy Wood, Linda Reynolds, and Nancy Schmidt
are all out in that great state, engaged in a variety of
activities — bringing good taste and good judgement to those
surfing savages.

And in the Southland. Mary Emma Carmichael is slav-
ing happily in an advertising agency in Atlanta, Ga. Andrea
Pearson is doing computer programming for a bank in
Mobile, Ala., and is reputedly still hung over from Mardi
Gras. Rab Willis Finlay is married and living in Columbia,
S.C, and going to graduate school. .

And that about wraps it up folks. Has Louise DuRona
gone underground AGAIN!

Apology!

The editors regret the omission of a by-line for the
article "They Dance" which appeared In the Spring
issue of this Magazine. This was written by Linda Lee
'64 who, since her graduation from Sweet Briar, has
earned her M.A. degree in dance from the University
of Iowa, where she has accepted a position for 1967-68.

Wanted!

An alumna as the Assistant Executive Secretary,
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association. For details please
write Mrs. Edward Leonard, 1st Vice-president, or
Mrs. John Roth, 2nd, Vice-president, % Alumnae Asso-
ciation, Sweet Briar, Virginia.

AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL ,
1967
ALUMNI ADMINISTRATION AWARD

SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE

SPONSORED BY THE SEARS-ROEBUCK FOUNDATION

Sweet Briar College received significant recog-
nition for tiic work of the Alumnae Association at
the Annual Conference of the American Alumni
Council. Six colleges and universities were honored
with an Alumni Administration Award, sponsored
by the Sears Roebuck Foundation. These awards
recognized "Those alumni programs that compre-
hensively seek to mobilize behind education the
full strength of organized alumni support." Recipients
in addition to Sweet Briar were. Smith College, Col-

gate University, The University of California at
Los Angeles, Tulane University and the University
of Wisconsin.

Blair Buniitii; Both, President of the Alumnae As-
sociation, and Elizabeth Bond Wood, Executive Sec-
retary of the Association, received the award for Sweet
Briar at the opening session of this conference in San
Francisco on July 2. Case studies of the award win-
ning alumni programs were featured sessions of this
conference.

The Evolution
of the EngUsh Bible

from the collection of an alumna

ighlight of the time of the dedication of Sweet
Briar's Memorial Chapel was an exhibit of books
from the collection of Elizabeth Perkins Prothro, '39.
Called "The Evolution of the English Bible," the
exhibit was open to the public in the Charles A. Dana
Wing of Mary Helen Cochran Library from the Dedi-
cation week end through June 7.

It included such rare items as a leaf from the
Gutenberg Bible of 1454-55, the first book to be
printed from movable type, and a first edition of Mar-
tin Luther's German translation of the Bible. Of the
thirty volumes Mrs. Prothro chose for this exhibit,
perhaps the most important was the Miles Coverdale
version, the first complete English translation of the
Bible, printed in Marburg, Germany by Eucharius
Cercornus and Johannes Sotes in 1535.

Mrs. Prothro, who lives in Wichita Falls, Texas,
began the collection of early Bibles with her husband,
Charles N. Prothro, in 1962. They visited that year
a rare book exhibit at Southern Methodist University,
and immediately became so much interested that they
commissioned the librarian of the University's School
of Theology to buy the first book in their collection
from the S.M.U. exhibit. The Prothro collection has
grown to a hundred and twenty-five volumes now.
Those on view at Sweet Briar were chosen for their
importance in the development of the Bible and as
examples of landmark editions of the Scriptures. Not
all the volumes in the collection were acquired from
such sources as a theological librarian — one in the
exhibit was purchased from Al Capone's lawyer.

Mrs. Prothro's generosity in allowing these Bibles
to remain at the College for an extended period is
only one evidence of her regard for her Alma Mater.
She is currently serving Sweet Briar as the first chair-
man of the Friends of the Sweet Briar College Library,
an organization she helped to found. Her interest in
the College has sparked that of her family — her hus-
band is a member of the College's Board of Overseers,
and her mother, Mrs. J. J. Perkins, recently gave the
new Memorial Chapel's magnificent three-manual
Holtkamp organ in honor of her daughter and of her
granddaughter, Kay Prothro Yeager, '61.

Mrs. Prothro's Sweet Briar exhibit was divided into
four parts: the Bible many centuries ago, foreign
language ancestors of the English Bible, Early English
Bibles, and the English Bible in America. Notes for
the exhibit, compiled by Mrs. Prothro, were published
in a handsome program.

Four Bibles were shown in the first part of the

exhibit. The Biblia Hebraica, printed in Basle by
Johann Froben in 1536, is a reprint of Sebastian Mun-
ster's 1534-35 Hebrew-Latin Bible: the Old Testa-
ment was written in Hebrew, and until the Dead
Sea Scrolls were found were taken from relatively
recent (tenth century) Hebrew manuscripts.

The New Testament was originally in Greek, and
the Prothro exhibit's second book. Novum Testa-
mentum, printed in Cambridge by Thomas Buck in
1632, is one of the earliest Testaments printed in
Greek in England. The third book, Septaginta, printed
in London, 1635, by Roger Daniel, is a translation of
the Old Testament into Greek, the first edition printed
in England. The fourth book was a manuscript,
Sacra Biblia, written in Paris during the thirteenth
century. A medieval Latin Vulgate, it is on fine thin
vellum, with illuminated initials and historiated minia-
ture initials.

"The Renaissance, with the invention of printing
with movable type and the return to classical study,"
writes Mrs. Prothro in her notes to the exhibit,
"brought with it the demand for ancient Bible trans-
lations and new translations into classical languages
and languages of the people. These Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, etc., translations were the sources, from
which our English translations came." Nine books or
parts of books in the exhibit were examples from this
period in the development of our Bible.

\_ he first, which is perhaps the most notable in
Mrs. Prothro's collection, was a leaf from Johann
Gutenberg's Biblia Latina (Mainz, 1454-55). A Vul-
gate version, Gutenberg's book was the first edition of
both the printed book and the printed Bible. With
the examples of beautiful manuscripts before him,
Gutenberg executed a highly prized book believed by
many to be the finest example of printing known.
There are forty-seven known complete Gutenberg
Bibles, fourteen in this country, and sixty-five known
Gutenberg leaves on vellum, of which Mrs. Prothro's
(the Sir Thomas Gage-Toomey-Felix Shade Leaf of
Genesis 46 : 1 3-48 : 7 ) is one of six in the western hem-
isphere.

In this section of the exhibit were two interesting
polyglots, or translations into many languages side by
side. The first, the Psalms, printed in five languages J
and eight columns by Petrus Paulus Porrus (Genoa, '
1516), contains as an aside the first printed biography
of Columbus. The second, the Biblia Polyglotta or
Complutensian Polyglot, the first polyglot of the en-

Title Page from No. 18, The Great Bible

tire Bible, was edited by Cardinal Francisco Ximenes
de Cisneros, a Spanish statesman and patron of learn-
ing. Working at the University of Complutum, with a
group of eminent scholars, Ximenes directed for fif-
teen years this "monument in typography and pre-
Reformation scholarship," making the Bible available
from original manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek, Latin,
Chaldee and Aramaic.

Two men who are themselves monuments of an age
were represented in this Foreign Language section
of the Prothro exhibit. They were Desiderius Erasmus,
with a second edition (containing Erasmus's correc-
tions to the first) of his first Greek translation of the

New Testament, and Martin Luther, with his German
translation of the first five books of the Old Testament.
When this first edition appeared in Wittenberg in
1523, Luther had already translated and published
(1522) a German translation of Erasmus's Greek
New Testament. "The Lutheran Pentateuch, first
among the great vernacular Protestant versions of the
Bible," writes Mrs. Prothro, "adds to its indisputable
religious importance, its great aesthetic importance
with its eleven full page wood cut illustrations by
Lucas Cranch the Elder which became a model for
future Bible illustrations."
Among the thirteen Bibles in the third section of

Mrs. Prothro's exhibit, which she called Early Eng-
lish Bibles, are the famous names — John Wycliffe,
William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale and John Rogers.
An Oxford scholar, John Wycliflfe translated the Vul-
gate into English in the fourteenth century; in the ex-
hibit at Sweet Briar was a copy — one of a hundred
and sixty made — of the first printed edition of the
Wycliffian New Testament (London, 1731). William
Tyndale's version of the New Testament, a fourth
edition (London, 1550), was translated from Eras-
mus's Greek and Latin, from the Septuagint, from the
Hebrew, from Luther's German version, and from the
Vulgate, and achieved such purity of style that its
language is the touchstone of later English versions.
In editing the first edition (Marburg, 1535) of the
complete Bible printed in English, Miles Coverdale
relied upon other translations, doing only the Psalms
independently. "All Bible versions stretching through
the centuries before the year 1535 led to the Cover-
dale Bible, and all English versions after 1535 have
stemmed from this Bible," Mrs. Prothro writes. "As
such, it is the jewel of this collection."

In this section of Early English Bibles also were two
editions (both London, 1540) of the Great Bible,
the only really authorized version issued in England.
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Geneva Bible (Geneva, 1560) which adopted di-
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became the most popular version for private worship,
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America. There was, too, a first edition of the Bishop's
Bible (London, 1568), an official version translated
by a group of bishops but never so popular as the
Genevan.

t was in part because the Bishop's Bible and the
Geneva Bible were both widely in use that King
James agreed in 1604 that one translation should be
made, a standard one for Englishmen. In the exhibit
at Sweet Briar were two "first" editions (both a "he"
and a "she" version, printed by Robert Barker in
London, 1611, and 1613 but perhaps 1611, respec-
tively, as the true first issue is presumed to be the
"he" version but may be the "she") of the King James
version, and a copy (London: Barker, 1612) of the
first quarto edition that made the Bible readily avail-
able to the home reader. "Strangely enough, the ver-
sion was never officially authorized," writes Mrs.
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clearness of the Tyndale, the stately theological vocab-
ulary of the Rhemes, and the harmonies of Cover-
dale. Its cadences and rhythms are the English lan-
guage at its richest. It has been the Bible of many
generations of English speaking people."

The printing of the Bible was forbidden to the
Colonists, so that the section of the exhibit, The
English Bible Comes to America, contained editions
from the late eighteenth century. The first was the
Holy Bible printed in Philadelphia by Robert Aitken,
1782, who was authorized by Congress to issue the
edition, the only instance of such authorization. In
1940, there were only seventy-five known copies of
Aitken's edition extant. The Self-Interpreting Bible
(New York, 1 792) was edited by the Reverend John
Brown and was a version found in many early

American homes, whose children grew up not just
with the Bible but also with the Reverend Mr. Brown's
sermons — "reflections" as the ends of books and
chapters. The final Bible in the exhibit, a two-volume
folio edition of the King James version, is the finest
work of one of the foremost Colonial printers, Isaiah
Thomas (Worcester, 1791).

Mrs. Prothro's collection, even this small selection
from it, is an impressive one in its breadth and in its
depth. The tradition of our Scriptural heritage be-
comes the more awesome when it is laid out material-
ly, so to speak, in an exhibit such as this. The College
is grateful to Mrs. Prothro for making possible an
experience rewarding to all able to visit it, an exper-
ience unusual in a community as small as Sweet
Briar's.

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The Strength of Tradition
The Freshness of Change

ontemporary theologians cast their nets into the
sea of reason and revelation, searching for relevance
in religion, believing that the old truths are not
enough. Youth examines the older generation's stan-
dards and finds that they, too, are not enough, that
a "new morality" demands an individual commitment
within the context of the situation rather than a rule
that must be followed blindly. On the undergraduate
scene, do these two trends affect the academic curri-
culum? Or are the new theology, the new morality,
fads that a respectable Department of Religion must
shun?

The new scholarship, the new concern with a per-
sonal ethic, cannot be dismissed as fads. They are not
so dismissed by the Department of Religion at Sweet
Briar. They have, over the past ten years, changed the
Department slowly, in two ways:

First, by the addition of such courses as Christian

Ethics (Religion 201).

Contemporary Theological Trends (202), and The

American Religious Tradition (217);

Second, by the new ideas brought to lectures in

standard subjects (New Testament, Old Testament,

Hebrew Prophets, etc.) by teachers who keep up

with the new scholarship.

Contemporary Theological Trends, for example,
traces the twentieth century development from neo-
liberalism, to neo-orthodoxy, to the new theologians,
whom some scholars judge to be neo-liberal again.
The course begins with Karl Earth's work (1917),
and includes such representative thinkers as Emil
Brunner, Martin Buber, Rudolf Bultmann, Rein-
hold Niebuhr, and William Temple. The students
read widely in the new theology. Here, there are as
yet no giants — a man like Emory University's Al-
thizer, who proclaimed the death of God amid the
guns of publicity, has no hearing among serious theo-
logians, and such popular proponents as Bishop Pike
have more influence in the press than in the theological
world.

lS an example of the second way in which the
teaching of religion is changed by new scholarship
and by changing times, James E. Kirby, Assistant
Professor who came to Sweet Briar in 1963, cites the
History of Christianity (Religion 213, 214). "We
can draw parallels between early Church Fathers and
the theologians today," Dr. Kirby said. "Augustine,
who died in 430 A.D., and Thomas Aquinas were
both radicals. Both stood in times much like ours.

when all the old standards and values were being
questioned by new ideas. Augustine lived through the
sack of Rome, and it looked as if the world of the
Church would go with Rome. He wrote "The City of
God" to say that the Church could survive the ravages
of time.

"When Aristotle's ideas were being discovered, and
were challenging scholasticism, Aquinas searched and
provided a synthesis. He said that there were two ways
to truth; Reason can know there is a God; only Reve-
lation can tell us he died for our sins.

"We need a synthesis today. Stanley Hopper at
Drew University believes that ours is the age of
the poet, for when all the old symbols seem archaic,
the poet brings his own, relevant symbols. The inter-
relationship of literature and religion is of interest
to today's student. Religion is only one of the ways
in which man has sought to answer his age-old ques-
tions — this is the justification for the teaching of
religion in the liberal arts."

.r. Kirby described, too, the way in which new
ethical approaches are relevant to traditional religion.
"In Christian Ethics, we have had to struggle with
what has been called the New Morality," he said. "By
this we mean the situational or contextual ethic, which
recognizes that all decisions are made within the limits
of space and time. One does not disregard law or
social mores; these are a part of the context. The man
in the contextual ethic begins within the limits im-
posed, and asks what love demands. Christ's teaching
in the New Testament scriptures is obviously parallel
to this ethical method."

One other change in the Department of Religion
at Sweet Briar College during the past ten years has
more to do with changes in the socio-political world
than in the theological world. This is the addition of
Religions of Asia (Religion 219), which this fall
becomes a two-semester course. A study of the re-
ligions of India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Korea, and
Indonesia, with major emphasis on Hinduism, Budd-
hism and Islam, the course will now allow more op-
portunity for the students to become acquainted with
the primary sources, all older works, of the various
non-Biblical faiths. The course is taught by Dr. Max-
ine Garner, the head of the Department of Religion.

Miss Garner spent the academic year 1962-1963
studying in India under a grant from the American
Institute of Indian Studies. The Institute has its Amer-
ican headquarters at the University of Pennsylvania,

and its Indian headquarters in Poona, India, a center
of higher education. Miss Garner studied at Deccan
College in Poona, and was able to attend lectures at
other universities nearby and to travel considerably.
She has pursued her studies in this country during
subsequent summers: in 1964 and 1965 in Charlottes-
ville, and in 1966 at Duke University, joining by invi-
tation college teachers in the Southeastern University
Center assisted by the Ford Foundation.

Miss Garner's previous study abroad included two
years under a Fulbright Scholarship and its renewal
at the University of Aberdeen, where she was awarded
the Ph.D. degree. Her new associate in the Depart-
ment of Religion for the coming academic year,
Trygve Rolf Skarsten, has also studied under a Ful-
bright grant, at the University of Oslo. Dr. Kirby
leaves Sweet Briar to establish a Department of Re-
ligion at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

In the mid-fifties there were more majors in Sweet
Briar's Department of Religion than there are today
— one year a peak of sixteen majored in religion.
Since 1958, five or six majors in the department have
been the norm, with six graduating last June and six
or seven in the rising senior class. Majors are required
to take twenty-six hours in the Department, including
Religion 105, 106, The Old Testament and The New
Testament. Thirty-six hours are offered by the Depart-
ment, in addition to the Senior Seminar, which is open
to majors and to others who have at least twelve hours
in the department. "We very much hope in the Re-
ligion Department to give as many of our students

as possible some knowledge of the Hebrew-Christian
source of our culture," Miss Garner said. "A large
proportion of the members of each graduating class
elects at least some of the courses in the Department."

Recent graduates majoring in Religion have gone
into publishing, advertising, library work, social work,
and staff work at churches where they live. Several
have studied at Union Theological Seminary in New
York. Jane Wheeler, '59, after receiving the master's
degree from that institution, spent a year in Jerusalem
and taught at Sweet Briar, and has most recently been
director of the City Council of Churches in Mil-
waukee. Carole Dudley, '65, is teaching Bible in the
Westminster School, Atlanta, and Madeleine Long
Duncan, '67, will be teaching in public schools near
Burlington, N. C, this fall. Hallie Harlan Darby, '67,
has received a grant to work toward the master's
degree in religion at Wake Forest University.

Current theological writing that Miss Garner rec-
ommends to Sweet Briar alumnae, whether or not they
majored in religion, includes articles and books by
J. A. T. Robinson, Schubert M. Ogden, John Mac-
quarrie, James M. Robinson, John B. Cobb, Jr., Hein-
rich Ott, Gerhard Ebeling, Ernst Fuch, Henri de
Lubac, Bernard Lonergan, Karl Rahner, Michael No-
vak, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Daniel Jenkins, Robert
McAfee Brown, William Stringfellow, and Daniel
Callahan.

As special editions. Miss Garner cites two recent
anthology publications. They are New Theology,
edited by Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman,
numbers one through four issued from 1964 through
1967 in paperback editions by the Macmillan Com-
pany, New York; and New Directions in Theology
Today, edited by William Hordern, seven volumes
issued in 1966 and 1967 in paperback editions by the
Westminster Press, Philadelphia. She recommends a
series of paperback volumes, not anthologies, being
issued by Scribner's called The Scribner Studies
in Contemporary Theology, and volumes one and two
of the Journal for Theology and Church, edited by
Robert W. Funk and Gerhard Ebeling, the first called
Translating Theology into the Modern Age, the sec-
ond. The Bultmann School of Biblical Interpretation.

Books which Miss Garner believes of particular
interest are John Macquarrie, Principles of Christian
Theology; Schubert Ogden, The Reality of God and
Other Essays; John Courtney Murray, The Problem
of God; Ved Mehta, The New Theologian, and Front-
line Theology, edited by Dean Peerman.

Bastille Day -1967

July 14, 1967 became an important date in the
history of Sweet Briar College. On this day a deci-
sion was made in the case of Sweet Briar Institute,
Plaintiff V. Robert Y. Button, Attorney General for
the Commonwealth of Virginia et. al. Defendants.

The decision handed down by the United States
District Court for the Western District of Virginia
resulted in victory for the College in the case begun
by action of the Board of Directors of this institution
almost four years ago.

Cognizant of the fact that Sweet Briar College suf-
fered hardships as the only college or university of
stature in the United States which was unable to
control its own admissions policy, the Board of Di-
rectors authorized the bringing of an action in the
Virginia Courts, seeking an interpretation of the ra-
cially restrictive language of the Founder's will: and,
alternatively, for application of the equitable doctrine
of cy pres to permit admission of non-white students
on the ground that changes in circumstances make the
continuance of racial discrimination at Sweet Briar de-
trimental to the primary purpose of the will.

In April of 1966 the College filed an action in the
United States District Court for the Western District
of Virginia to enjoin Virginia state officers from en-
forcing the racial restriction contained in the will
on the ground that the enforcement thereof would
violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States and the
provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Board of Directors approved an open admis-
sions policy at Sweet Briar which was placed in effect
under the protection of a temporary restraining order
obtained in the pending action.

Last December in a two to one decision the United
States District Court for the Western District of Vir-
ginia ordered that further prosecution of the Federal
action be suspended until the Virginia courts con-
sidered and acted upon the questions raised in the
Amherst Circuit Court by the original and amended

bills of complaint. Notice of appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States was duly filed.

In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme court handed
down a decision May 29, 1967, which in part said
. . . "The judgement of the United States District
Court for the Western District of Virginia is reversed.
The case is remanded for consideration on the merits."

On July 17, 1967 a final order was entered by
Albert V. Bryan, Circuit Judge, Thomas J. Michie,
District Judge and John D. Butzner, District Judge
of the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia. Signed by the three judges was
the following: "Upon consideration of the merits of
the cause in accordance with the directions of the
said opinion and mandate, it is ordered that, for the
reasons set forth in the opinion of this court filed here-
with, the defendants and their successors in office be,
and each of them is hereby, permanently enjoined
and restrained from enforcing against the plaintiff
the provision in the will of the late Indiana Fletcher
Williams, dated April 3, 1899, admitted to probate
in the County Court of Amherst County, Virginia
and recorded in Will Book 23 page 493, limiting the
education in Sweet Briar Institute of only such girls
and young women as are of the white race.

It is also ordered that the plaintiff recover of the
defendants its costs in this action and that this case
be stricken from the docket.

And this decree is final."

As has been said in the President's Newsletter of
August, "Sweet Briar can now look to its future with
confidence. It no longer is compelled to operate un-
der the stigmatization and disadvantages which re-
sult from the restricted admissions policy. The Col-
lege is now in a position not only to maintain but to
improve the high academic standing which it has
always enjoyed. It is hoped that those alumnae and
friends who have expressed concern at the Board's
action will now unite with the Board in making Sweet
Briar the leading liberal arts college in the Nation."

Sweet Briar Alumnae Council -1967

program in brief

Tuesday

Orientation for Councillors

October 10

Chapel

Executive Board Meeting

Campus Tour

Reception at Sweet Briar House

Evening with President Anne G. Pannell

Wednesday

Alumnae Association Reports

October 11

Sessions:

Dean Catherine Sims

Chaplain Alexander Robertson

Alumnae Association Workshops

Bulbs

Reunion Chairmen

Alumnae Representatives

Tea With Student Guides

Evening With Student Leaders

Thursday

Workshops continued

October 12

Club Presidents

Fund Agents

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Alumnae Magazine

Volume 38 No. 1 Fall 1967 Winter 1968

Issued four times yearly: Fall. Winter. Spring and
Summer by Sy^eet Briar College Alumnae Associa-
tion. Second class postage paid at Sweet Briar.
Virginia 24595.

Editor: Elizabeth Bond Wood '34
As.sociate Editor: Nancy St. Clair TaUcy '56
Class Notes Editor: Mary Vaughan Black well

Statement of Ownership. Management and Circulation
Date of filing: September 26, 1967. Title of publica-
tion: Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine.
Frequency of issue: Four times a year. Location of
known office of publication: GcoTgc W. King Print-
ing Co., 714 East Pratt St., Baltimore, Md. 21202.
Publisher: Sweet Briar College Alumnae Associa-
tion, Alumnae House, Sweet Briar, Va. 24595.
Editor: Elizabeth Bond Wood, Alumnae House,
Sweet Briar, Va. 23495. Managing Editor: Same as
Editor. Owner: Sweet Briar College Alumnae
Association, Sweet Briar, Va. 24595. Known Bond-
holders: none. Total copies printed: 8,100 Total
paid circulation: 0. Free distribution: 8,000. Office
use. left-over, unaccounted: 100. Total: 8,100.

Design & Photography - Ronald Seichrist. Phila.. Pa.

As Sweet Briar begins an Institutional Self Study
which is required every ten years by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools, the editors of
the Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine have made
their own study. Here is your Alma Mater as they
see it in 1968. Compare this report with the College
of your day. The faculty, which with the students
is one of the two most important constituents of
any college, is not studied here in depth as the
1967 Winter issue of this magazine featured the
Sweet Briar faculty, past and present.

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contents

3 You Can't Get In Anymore

or Not in the Same Old Way

16 Sweet Briar's President Heads AAUW

17 Who's Afraid of Twentieth Century Theatre
by Joan Vail Thorne '5 1

29 Let Us Give Thanks for Sweet Briar
by five seniors

34 They Also Serve

by Nancy St. Clair Talley '56

43 We Shall Not See Their Like Again

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You Can't Get In Anymore

or Not in the Same Old Way

f you are an alumna of ten years standing, you
can't get into Sweet Briar anymore.

This is a physical, not an academic, statement. You
can't get into Sweet Briar anymore because you. Miss
or Mrs. Alumna, used to get into Sweet Briar a differ-
ent way. You drove up past Manson and Randolph,
turned up the hill, and drove around the circle in front
of the Refectory, parking, if you were lucky — and in
those days there were few cars on campus, and you
usually were lucky — right in front of Gray and the
Information Center.

No more. Today, if you tried to get into the main
campus that way, you would have to drive right
through the Memorial Chapel. Today, the Informa-
tion Center and the Post Office are where Manson
Chapel used to be. There is a parking lot outside.
There is another parking lot by the new Meta Glass
Dormitory, beyond old Grammer Hall. If these are
full, you may have to back up, go around a new
circle (a beautiful dogwood tree preserved in its
center) and park near what is still the Date House
or in front of the new Book Shop, behind the new
Dana Wing of the Library.

A walking tour will reveal the new symmetry
achieved by these new, and somewhat confusing,
entrances. The Memorial Chapel is the center of the
Residential area, with venerable Big Refectory and
new Dew Dormitory in harmony. The Library, flank-
ed by Fletcher and Benedict (once Academic), make
up another group. The Daisy Williams Gymnasium,
once isolated, is joined now by Mary Reynolds
Babcock Fine Arts Center and Connie M. Guion
Science Building, making the three largest buildings
one campus group.

Changed? To some extent, it is a new campus.
Does this change symbolize change in the College
itself? Where has the College come during the past
ten years? How would you. Alumna, evaluate the
changes that have taken place at Sweet Briar? How
would you evaluate the position of the College
today? How would you project its future?

A committee at the College begins this year a
self-study to achieve just such an evaluation. This
committee, steered by Richard C. Rowland, Profes-
sor of English, will accomplish the Institutional
Self-Study Program required by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools. The Program
permits an institution to measure itself qualitatively
before being measured by a visiting committee from
the Association, both measurements being the

process by which accreditation is reaffirmed.

The Institutional Self-Study Program is a relative-
ly new one. Undertaken now by all members of the
Southern Association once every ten years, it was
first accomplished by Sweet Briar College in 1958
and 1959, with a visit from the Association early in
1960. Sweet Briar was one of the Association mem-
bers that participated in the Program in its early
years, for Sweet Briar's first self-study, ten years
ago, was a part of a new endeavor for the Associa-
tion. Sweet Briar's second self-study, which begins
this fall with organization and gets underway actively
during the second semester of the current academic
year, will go on all next year, will be completed in
1969, and will culminate in a visit from the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in the
fall of 1969.

The scope of the Institutional Self-Study is
comprehensive. It begins with an examination, and a
statement, of the purpose of the College, which
Mr. Rowland hopes to have completed this year,
along with reports from each academic department,
filed with the Self-Study but not actually a part of
it. Those facets of the College that are a part of the
Self-Study, besides the purpose of the College, are
the organization and administration of the College,
its educational program, its financial resources, its
faculty, its library, its student personnel, its physical
plant, its graduate and research programs, and its
plans for the future.

If you. Alumna, were to institute such a Self-Study
Program for your own benefit, to know where your
College stands today and where it is going, what
would you examine? All those relevant divisions of
the academic institution listed in the Manuals of the
Self-Study Program, and enumerated above, no
doubt. But, because of your own view of Sweet
Briar, your own peculiar interest in the College and
your own intimate knowledge of it, perhaps you
would arrange your study somewhat differently.
Remembering your student days, you might be first
interested in what the students are like today, how
they choose Sweet Briar, how Sweet Briar chooses
them, what they do while they are at the College and
what their plans are after graduation. Remembering
your close association with the faculty during your
undergraduate years, you might turn next to a study
of the faculty, to learn who the professors are and
whether the faculty as a group has changed. Re-
membering that your hours at the College were

absorbed by studies— to a lesser or greater extent,
depending upon who you are— you might asi< next
whether the student today is led by today's faculty
into the same studies or into different ones. You
would ask then about the Library, how it has
improved and about the new Dana Wing.

You would go on then, perhaps, to concerns that
an alumna recognizes more than she recognized as
a student. You would ask about the administration
of the College, about the physical plant and its
management, and about the financial resources of

the College. These were things you took for granted
when you were a student. You know now that they
cannot betaken for granted, that a smoothly running
organization does not happen automatically.

Let us undertake your self-study, then. You have
parked your car and completed your tour of the
campus. You know that its beauty remains, that the
mountains are there towering over it, that its peace
is unspoiled by automobile and mini skirt. Now you
want to learn what the College is like underneath, how
its grow ih has affected its being.

The Curriculum

he quality of the curriculum, like the quality of
the faculty, was high ten years ago and it remains
high today. It has developed over the decade as
Sweet Briar has grown. These developments. Dean
Catherine S. Sims points out, are more on the order
of making the course offerings better than of chang-
ing them for change's sake. Sweet Briar stresses
enriching and updating, rather than enlargement of
the course offerings.

Yet the changes are there. Asian Studies, a pioneer
endeavor for which Sweet Briar College, Lynchburg
College, and Randolph-Macon Woman's College
joined in I960, offers courses in the art, history,
politics, language and religion of selected countries.
Sweet Briar, specifically, added four year courses
under the program, brought the course on Oriental
Religions from one semester to two semesters, and
added a course in Oriental Art.

Changes in the Department of Mathematics have
been substantial, designed to strengthen Sweet
Briar's offering and to delete courses offered in the
good high schools. Among the additions are work in
computer science, the history of mathematics,
numerical analysis, modern algebra, linear algebra,
and topology.

The discipline of physics, like that of mathematics,
has changed during the past ten years, and the
Department of Physics at Sweet Briar has grown to
keep pace. Whereas the College offered thirty-five
semester hours of'courses a decade ago, it now offers
fifty-two semester hours.

In the Department of Modern Languages, Sweet
Briar has added period courses, as "The Age of
Enlightenment" in the French Department and "The
Age of Goethe" in German. In each of the modern
languages the College offers today an introductory
survey of literature for advanced students, reflecting
the superior preparation in the foreign languages
that today's students receive. Sweet Briar's reputa-
tion for strength in foreign languages draws many
applicants interested in language studies.

In Philosophy, Sweet Briar offers fifty-one semes-
ter hours (not all in one year) as compared with
thirty-three hours ten years ago. In Psychology, the
Collegehas added courses in Motivation, Personality,
Testing, Social Psychology. Learning and Percep-

tion. In Education, additions are the Teaching of
Reading, and of Children's Literature; Contempo-
rary Problems in Education; Advanced Nursery
School and Kindergarten Practice, and Student
Teaching of Foreign Language Conversation. This
last program includes practice teaching of French
in the Amherst County schools by senior language
majors, one of the few, if not the only, such program
on an undergraduate level in the country.

The Class of 1967 was the first class to be gradu-
ated under the present curriculum system, which
went into effect in September 1963. Alumnae who
chafed under a former system of requirements for
the degree that seemed sometimes rigid may envy
today's student, who has a wider latitude of choice
in her courses from her freshman year on. The
present curriculum follows a middle course between
the extremes of rigid requirements and free elections.
There is still a system of distribution requirements in
foreign languages, the sciences and mathematics,
history, the fine arts, classics, and literature. But the
choice of courses to fulfill these distribution re-
quirements is wider than formerly, and recognizes
the advanced preparation that many entering
students offer. There is today a requirement of a
one-year course emphasizing present problems,
which may be chosen from courses in Asian Civiliza-
tion, Economics, Government, Philosophy, Religion
or Sociology.

As the Committee on Instruction met last spring,
under the chairmanship of Milan Hapala, Carter
Glass Professor of Government, to consider changes
in the curriculum and in the distribution require-
ments, there was lively discussion of the requirement
system. Some Sweet Briar teachers favor a series of
required subjects for all students, at least during
the first two years. But faculty opinion as a whole
seems to lean toward a reduction in the number of
requirements. The area of agreements about the
curriculum among the faculty is significant. The
faculty are concerned that the curriculum be
substantial, interesting and relevant to the world the
students live in. As a group they believe that the
emphasis in a liberal arts education must be upon
good teaching rather than upon rearranging the
matter that is taught.

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Financial Resources

-s a student, you took the smooth running of
the Sweet Briar community pretty much for granted.
As an Alumna, you know more of what such
smoothness requires. One of the things you know
it requires is money, and you turn to questions
about the financial resources of the College. What,
you ask, are the total assets of the College? What
are its total operating expenses? Of these expenses,
how much goes toward such academic concerns as
faculty salaries? Where does the money come from?
The answers come from Peter V. Daniel, Treasur-
er of the College and Assistant to the President
since 1954. Looking back over the past decade, Mr.
Daniel compares the financial resources, or total
assets, of Sweet Briar College;

• for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1967:
$14,981,000.

• for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1958:
$ 6,300,000.

These figures include the value of the plant, equip-
ment, endowment, campaign monies, loan funds,
an annuity fund, and current funds.

During the decade, operating expenses of the
College have almost doubled. For the year ending
June 30, 1967, they were $2,41 1,000. For the fiscal
year ending 1958, they were $1,227,000. The in-
crease reflects the effects of inflation. It reflects,
also, such budgetary changes as a greater percen-
tage of expenditure for faculty salaries. For the fis-
cal year ending last June, for example, instructional
costs, which includes also some student self help
and supplies, were $818,500. This figure had more
nearly tripled than doubled since 1958, when instruc-
tional costs were $336,700.

Money to operate the College comes from tuition,
from endowment, from gifts and grants, and from
"Other Sources". Specifically, 80.49% of the total
operating education and general income for 1966-
1967 was from student fees. From the endowment

came 10.34%; from gifts and grants, 6.45%; from
other sources, 2.72%.

Student fees this year are $3,100; for the fiscal
year ending June 1967, they were $2,950. Ten years
ago, the over-all fee was $2,200. The book value
of the endowment for 1966-67 was $5,337,000; ten
years ago, this figure was $2,100,000. Mr. Daniel
pointed out that although the book value of the
endowment is $5,337,000 at the last audit, the mar-
ket value of the endowment, much of which is in
common stocks, is $8,195,000. The income from
endowment, which goes toward the annual operat-
ing expenses of the College, was in the fiscal year
just ended $195,000. Ten years ago, the income
from the endowment for similar operating expenses
was $95,600.

Money to operate Sweet Briar will continue to
come from principally student fees, from endow-
ment mcome, and from gifts and grants. In order to
keep student fees from mounting, the endowment
must be increased constantly. Gifts and grants
must grow, too. The two largest supporters of col-
lege operations are the Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges and the Sweet Briar Alumnae
Association. In the fiscal year just ended, the
VFICgave Sweet Briar $58,300, as compared with
$21,000 ten years ago. The Alumnae Association
gave the College for operating purposes this year
$50,000, as compared with $30,600 ten years ago.
This figure from the Alumnae Association does not
included contributions designated for other speci-
fied purposes.

"These figures show relatively good growth for
a small liberal arts college," Mr. Daniel tells you.
"The alumnae can be proud of this fact, and so
can all the others who support the College. But we
have the same problems as other small private lib-
eral arts colleges. Costs will mount, and we don't
want to raise student fees."

The Physical Plant

t was changes in the physical plant of the College
that led you to inquire about other changes.
Changes in the physical plant are gratifying. Quan-
titatively, the physical plant was worth $4,360,000
in 1957. Today, it is worth $9,017,000. Qualitative-
ly, this means more dormitory space, more refectory
space, better laboratories, better art studios and
music rooms, a spacious auditorium, a better library
facility, a dignified place of worship. As you walk-
ed around the campus, you saw

• Meta Glass Dormitory, in use since 1962, hous-
ing 150 students and including a refectory. Stu-
dents still use the Big Refectory; the old re-
fectory in Reid is a student-manned smoker-
study hall.

• The Mary Reynolds Babcock Fine Arts Center,
in use since 1961. Here a fine auditorium seats
670 and is equipped with excellent utilities for
the dramatist. On one side of the building,
easels and sculpture show off to good advantage

in the light from tall windows; working in such
studios must be a joy. On the other side, music
rooms are provided with Steinway pianos and a
practice organ. The music and recording library
is here, also,

• The Connie M. Guion Science Building, in use
since 1965. Here there is a full floor for biol-
ogy, for chemistry, and one shared by physics
and psychology; faculty offices boast individ-
ual, and private, laboratories; the Science Li-
brary is outstanding for a women's college of
Sweet Briar's size; a small auditorium, seating
180, and a faculty lounge attract science stu-
dents and other students alike.

• The Charles Dana Wing of Mary Helen Cochran
Library, in use for the first time this fail, with
its four stories of stacks and its comfortable
work space for librarians and staff.

• Memorial Chapel, in use since 1966. The focal
point of the "new" campus, the chapel seats
375, has a three-manual Holtkamp organ, in-
cludes chaplain offices, choir practice rooms,
and a small chapel, and is as perfect in its beau-
ty inside as it is outside.

• The Book Shop, in use since 1961. A pleasing
one-story structure, this building gives scope
for long-time manager Helen McMahon's
talents.

You saw, too, such evidences of remodelling as
the new Post Office and Information Center, in the
basement of Manson, and the new Alumnae House,
with faculty apartments above, where the Book
Shop was formerly housed. Alumnae House now
utilizes the ground-floor space of this building,
where the Post Office used to be.

In taking stock of the physical plant, you are

struck anew by the vast enterprise that is Sweet
Briar College. The 3,000 acres are well-kept and
utilized. A large Holstein herd at a dairy that is
pleasant even for the non-farmer provides the com-
munity with milk. Two lakes are the community
water supply, with a water filtration system. There
is a power plant for steam. There is a cutting gar-
den, and a green house, in addition to extensive
gardens and the magnificent trees and boxwood
that Elijah Fletcher set out during the last century.
There is a carpenter shop, a road surfacing and
maintenance operation, a laundry that is the boon
of all. There is a doctor, a psychiatrist on call, three
nurses, and an infirmary. There are stables, tennis
courts, playing fields. Campus security is assured by
a group of policemen from the Pinkerton Corpor-
ation, affectionately known to the students as Ren't-
a-Cops, who first became associated with the Col-
lege in 1964. The College thus is run with some-
what the self-sufficiency of a town, buying only
electricity and food. Yes, the refectories still bake
the bread the students eat, and the quality of the
fare is still guaranteed to have the freshman diet-
ing after six weeks.

Yes, the value of Sweet Briar's physical plant
has more than doubled in ten years. And this value
grows with annual improvements. Such improve-
ments and changes this year, for example, included
the conversion of all college housing to oil heat,
new carpeting in the dormitories, all new equip-
ment in the Benedict language laboratory, the con-
version of a fall-out shelter into a psychology lab-
oratory, the installation of air-conditioning in two
warm-animal rooms, the re-surfacing of the en-
trance road, and a new vending machine room in
Reid Basement.

Charles A. Dana Wing

he Mary Helen Cochran Library sees this year the
opening of the Charles Dana Wing, a four-story addi-
tion at the back of the existing building. This
air-conditioned structure gives office space on the
floor where the Main Reading Room is located, great-
er stack area adjacent to the two existing stack floors
below, and a sub-basement fourth stack floor. The
main library, given to the College in 1929 by Fergus
ReidofNorfolk in memory of his mother, thus comes
of age.

Its collection is exceptional for an institution like
Sweet Briar. The books in the main collection are
selected to meet the needs of the College course, al-
though many books on many subjects are available
outside the information normally considered a part of
the liberal arts tradition. Members of each academic
department may recommend or request certain
purchases, and the range of scholarship is wide and
rich. Library resources include more than 122,000
volumes. This represents an increase during ten
years: in 1957,thenumberof volumes was 86,000. To-
day there are additional holdings in microprint and
microfilm. The current periodical list numbers well
over seven hundred titles, both American and
foreign; ten years ago this number was four hundred
and fifty.

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To Mr. and Mrs. Dana by Stephanie Bredin '68

V-^n behalf of the student body I would like to thank
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Dana, who, through the
Dana Foundation, made possible the recent wing
addition to the Sweet Briar library. Though I am
speaking for all the students, I know I cannot
adequately represent everyone, for each of us as an
individual feels a different sort of gratitude. As
individuals we pursue different interests, which bring
us to the library as the source of literary material on
any number of topics. I cannot even guess the extent
of such material. I only know from my delving into the
realm of history that many rare, old and exciting
works exist. And it seems that each time I go down
to collect a book on a specific topic, I am waylaid
and find myself sitting in the aisle poring over some
totally irrelevant but fascinating subject. The Dana
Wing now houses the historical and biographical
works as well as a number of periodicals. There are
numerous comfortable desks and study rooms, but
the aisles are so well lit that it is possible to read up
on side interests and not feel guilty about taking
extraneous personal interests away to study. A
source of inspiration, a place of contentment, I have
spent many happy hours withdrawn, out of touch
with reality, and a stranger even to myself in the
library, surrounded by outdated newspapers and
legendary books — the victim of escapism.
I'd always taken such pleasure for granted until

last autumn when I went to the University of Wales
in Bangor for a year. Not only was the library there
poor in its collection — (personally speaking, that is,
since I spoke no Welsh, and therefore could not
appreciate their fine collection of books in that
language) but an even greater disappointment
came when I discovered the stacks were closed. To
obtain a book involved a time-consuming and
annoying process of application, but the worst
aspect was that it eliminated browsing at random.

Exposure to different ideas in various fields is
important in these years of our lives as students; our
minds are open, ready to take in all aspects of
knowledge; we are still formulating values and
standards. We cannot read too much: we should
be supple and gradually develop a philosophy of life.

I don't know — I think every individual has to be
able to dream, has to take inspiration from some
source. Desire to learn is innate. It is human to derive
pleasure from mental tussles with conflicting
theories. There is a beautiful saying — "When
legends die the dreams end; when the dreams end
there is no more greatness." It's true, for what is a
legend but a truth that has elapsed with time. Only
writing and books remain to preserve and verify.

Again I thank the Dana Foundation for enlarging
our library to promote greater learning and to
inspire our dreams.

The Student

-L o learn about the Sweet Briar student, you might
look first at the student body as a whole. It is larger
today than it was ten years ago — in 1957, there were
523 students; in 1967, there were 729; the enrollment
this fall is 739. Ten years ago the graduating class
numbered 86. In June 1957, it numbered 149.

The geographic distribution of the student body
has remained wide. In 1956-1957, there were 220
students from the North East, 208 from the South
East, 33 from the South West, 49 from the Middle
States and North West, and five from the South
West. There were eight foreign students. Ten years
later, the figures were North East, 246; South East,
33 1 : South West, 42; Middle States and North West,
69, with seventeen foreign students.

Admission policies and requirements, except for
the significant non-discriminatory policy, have
remained basically the same. Ten years ago the
requirement of sixteen academic units (English,
language, mathematics, history and science) was
difficult for some prospective students to meet,
according to Nancy Godwin Baldwin, '57, Director
of Admission. Today many prospective students
offer from eighteen to twenty-one units as a matter
of course. These prospective students are better
prepared by their schools, both independent and
public, than they were ten years ago, Mrs. Baldwin
believes, and they receive better college counseling.
They are also what she terms "test-oriented." Their
College Board score medians have risen steadily and
are now consistently 30 to 50 points higher for the
applying group.

This applying group has almost doubled in ten
years. For 1958, Mrs. Baldwin reports, 570 applica-
tions were completed for entrance to the freshman
class. In 1959, 611 completed applications. Now
roughly a thousand applications are completed each
year. Applications in private colleges are down this
year, almost ten percent as an average; at Sweet
Briar, they have dropped roughly three percent from

a peak in 1964-1965.

Those who enter Sweet Briar have a higher class
standing from high school than confreres of ten
years ago. Whereas a survey of an entering class ten
years ago would consider the top quarter of a high
school class, such a survey now consider the top
fifth of the classes. Of those who entered this
September, 62% were in the upper fifth of their
graduating classes. In the upper 10% were 110
freshmen out of 270.

Today's student seems to have a greater sense of
purpose than her sister ten years ago. She decides
early that she wants to go to graduate school or
become a computer programmer; she tends to think
less about leaving school. She is more critical of the
education process, more aware of the world about
her, more eager to make her own decisions. But
there is still something about a Sweet Briar girl that
remains the same. She is friendly, unaffected, and
honest. The Honor System under which she lives
permeates the atmosphere of the campus in a way
that you, the Alumna, may not have realized that it
did when you were a student, although it did. Now
you no longer take such an atmosphere for granted.
Says Mrs. Baldwin, "The present generation of
Sweet Briar students has in common with its prede-
cessors several noticeable qualities. I believe they
could be summed up in an old-fashioned word,
'character.' They still have plenty ot humor about
them and they definitely are not without their
idiosyncrasies — or their mini-skirts, although these
are not plentiful about the campus. They're lively;
they're not all alike. One thing that they certainly
cannot be accused of is being dull.

"I'm for them! 1 think they're great. In fact, except
that they all seem to have been born deaf, judging
from the volume put forth by their dance combos,
and except that on the dance floor the group resem-
bles a bowl of agitated worms, I have no reservations
about them and a great deal of admiration for them."

The Faculty

These students are taught by men and women of
varied background and high academic achievement.
For 1967-1968. according to a report from the office
of the Dean, the faculty is made up of—

• twenty professors:

• sixteen associate professors;

• eleven assistant professors;

• sixteen instructors, and

• three departmental assistants.

There are, in addition, twelve part-time teachers:
three professors, five lecturers, two instructors, and
two departmental assistants. Neither the part-time
nor the full-lime departmental assistants have
faculty status in the full sense.

Of the full-time faculty, seventeen professors have
the doctorate. Twelve associate professors have the
doctorate or other terminal degree. Five assistant
professors have the doctorate, and of the remaining
six all have the Master's degree and one is a Ph. D.
candidate on active status. Three of the six holding
the M.A. are in fields where it is not usual to get the
doctorate. Fourteen of the instructors have the
master's degree. Of the two remaining, one is by-
passing the master's and is a candidate for the
Ph. D., and the other is nearing completion of the
M.A. program. Of the fourteen with the master's
degree, seven are candidates for the Ph. D. and
should receive it within the next academic year.

For the current academic year, all the part-time
professors have the Ph. D. Two of the part-time
lecturers have the Ph. D., two have the master's
degree, and the remaining one will complete the
M.A. this fall. Both part-time instructors have the
master's degree; in one case, it is the terminal degree
for his field: the other instructor is an active
candidate for the Ph. D. The part-time faculty is of
great value to Sweet Briar, making it possible for the
College to enrich its offering and give specialized
courses from which students benefit and which
probably could not be offered if the faculty who
give the courses required full-time work. Sweet
Briar makes especially good use of part-time faculty
in the Division of Social Studies, where there is a
great advantage in having differing points of view
represented.

Since 1963, Sweet Briar has been a member of the
United States-India Women's College Exchange
Program, an association (thirteen liberal arts
women's colleges in this country and six women's
colleges in India) which has developed a system of
inter-institutional teacher exchange. This year.
Sweet Briar has Mr. H. E. Shivashankaraiah of
Maharani's College, Bangalore, as Visiting Lecturer
in Economics.

The variety of training among the "domestic"
faculty is great. Omitting the institutions where the
B.A. degree was earned, the College faculty repre-
sent forty-six institutions in the United States and

nine foreign institutions. The institutions in this
country are Appalachian State Teachers College,
Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, the Univer-
sity of California at Los Angeles, the University of
Chicago, the University of Cincinnati, Claremont
Graduate Schools, Columbia University, the Uni-
versity of Connecticut, Cornell University, Duke
University, Harvard University, the University of
Illinois, the University of Indiana, the University of
Iowa, Iowa State University, Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, the University of Maine, the University of
Massachusetts, the University of Michigan, the
University of Missouri, Mt. Holyoke College, the
University of Nebraska, New York University, the
State University of New York, the University of
North Carolina, Northwestern University, the
University of Pennsylvania, the University of
Pittsburgh, Princeton University, Purdue Univer-
sity, Radcliffe College, the University of Richmond,
Richmond Professional Institute, Smith College,
Syracuse University, the University of Tennessee,
the University of Texas, Tulane University, Union
Theological Seminary, Vassar College, the Univer-
sity of Virginia, Washington University, Western
Reserve University, the University of Wisconsin,
and Yale University. Foreign institutions are the
University of Aberdeen, the University of Clermont-
Ferrand, Heidelberg University, the University of
Geneva, Mysore University, Oxford University, the
University of Paris, and the University of Vienna.
Many of the members of the faculty will be famili-
ar to you, for Sweet Briar has its share of loyal
professors whose personalities have helped shape the
College. There are at least nineteen who have been
at the College for ten years, and of these some have
been on the faculty for more than twenty years. At
the same time, the College leans upon the young
professor who remains at the College for five years
or less and goes on to a position of responsibility in
a larger institution. Such a relationship is mutually
happy: for Sweet Briar, the freshness of new ideas
and the early work of outstanding educators: for the
teacher, experience in an institution where the
emphasis is upon teaching and the expected level of
performance among students and faculty alike is
excellent.

*The 1967 winter issue of the alumnae magazine featured the Sweet
Briar faculty / past and present.

Ad Summan

ou have completed your survey of the College.
Richard Rowland's steering committee for the self-
study and evaluation of Sweet Briar will make this
survey in greater depth. But even in a brief glance,
you have learned about a decade's change at Sweet
Briar College.

You have learned that a strong faculty is still the
pride of the College and that keeping it so is a major
aim of the administration; you have learned that the
faculty is somewhat larger, and, if degrees are an
adequate indication, somewhat stronger. You have
learned that the curriculum has changed with changing
knowledge, but that it has not succumbed to academic
fads; it is a richer, but not a new curriculum. You
have learned that the students taught by the faculty
according to the curriculum are better-prepared, that
there are more of them, that they face stiffer entrance
competition, that they seem to have a greater sense
of purpose in their studies and outside activities than
their sisters of ten years ago. You have learned that
the library has grown in the number of volumes and
in the building that houses them; that the Mary
Helen Cochran Library is one of which a small
liberal arts college may be justly proud. You recog-
nize among the administration many loyal faces, and
you have met some impressive new leaders among
them. Having begun by noting changes in the physi-
cal plant, you have learned that the extent of growth
here is even greater than the eye sees, and that this
growth has enabled the College to grow more than
physically. Finally, you have learned that the College
has expanded its financial resources, and that, al-

though the small private institution faces many
problems which Sweet Briar College shares, the fiscal
outlook of the College is an optimistic one.

As you review your survey, you see that the word
"growth" recurs. The word "change" does not. You
have learned, essentially, that Sweet Briar College
has grown during the last ten years. But it has not
changed. You might report that it has become more
so. The students are still healthy and exuberant; they
still live under the Honor System that has influenced
so many students and alumnae. The faculty are still
devoted to teaching. The curriculum is still both
broad and deep for each student, even though the
"requirements" are less rigid than they were. The
library is still crowded in the evenings; the avid
student may still be found reading on the floor in the
stacks on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The aims of the
administrative departments are the same, whether or
not the personnel has changed. The new buildings
have reinforced the architectural pleasure of Bulfinch's
inspirations, and, like the old ones, they have a
certain rightness in the rolling countryside. And that
countryside is abiding, giving to the College a unique
sense of community and to those who live at Sweet
Briar a prevailing beauty that, being a part of the
spirit of the place, becomes a part of the spirits of
those who have been there.

You, the alumna, having learned about the growth
at Sweet Briar, find that you are still at home here.
You are grateful that, change being the law of all
things, your College has changed in the direction it
seemed to be heading when you were a student.

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Sweet Briar's

President

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AAUW

X resident Anne Gary Pannell of Sweet Briar
College has been elected president of the American
Association of University Women. Her term of
office, which began at the June National biennial
convention in Miami, will be for four years.

Long a member of the Virginia Division of the
AAUW, Dr. Pannell is a former president of the
Alabama Division. On the national level of the
AAUW, she has sat on the Legislative Program
Committee. She brings to her new position the
strong academic training and achievement of which
Sweet Briar alumnae are proud, as well as the out-
standing background of civic and cultural con-
tributions to the community on all levels — local,
state, national, and the world.

In this breadth of interest she will be at home in
her new position with the AAUW. Founded in 1882
to open the doors of education to women, the Amer-
ican Association of University Women numbers
more than 175,000 members in over 1,625 branches
in the fifty states, the District of Columbia and
Guam, and lists more than 975 American colleges
and universities whose woman graduates are eligible
for AAUW membership. The Virginia Division
alone lists thirty-two AAUW branches.

Internationally, the AAUW holds membership in
the International Federation of University Women.

An organization of associations in fifty-two coun-
tries, the IFUW is a vital force for international
understanding, providing contacts for university
women of many countries and opportunities for
united action on common goals. The AAUW has a
representative to the United Nations, whose reports
to members promote understanding of the aims ahd
achievements of the UN and its agencies. The
AAUW also implements a program to bring African
women teachers to the United States for training.

On a national scale, the American Association of
Universrty Women develops a study-action program
under four topics relating to the basic areas of
AAUW interest: community problems, cultural
interests, education, and world problems. It pre-
sents the viewpoint of its members to other organi-
zations, institutions, and government agencies

whose concerns relate to this program, and co-
operates with a score or more of national organi-
zations with similar interests. It maintains a ros-
ter of women qualified for public service and sup-
ports qualified women for policy-making positions;
it promotes professional opportunities for women
in higher education. It administers an annual writing
project for members, in which outstanding manu-
scripts are given criticism by nationally recognized
authors.

The Association maintains a Fellowships Pro-
gram which, through the AAUW Educational
Foundation, awards approximately $350,000 a year
to some hundred gifted women scholars, about half
of them Americans and half foreign scholars who
wish to study in the United States. This Fellow-
ships Program, established in 1888, is one of the
Association's oldest and most distinctive contri-
butions to the education of women, having pro-
vided financial assistance to more than two thou-
sand scholars.

A recent, and successful, experiment allied to the
Fellowships Program grew out of the AAUW Ed-
ucational Foundation interest in the continuing ed-
ucation of women and the need for more and better
college teachers. This interest resulted in 1962 in
the inauguration of the College Faculty Program,
operated in eleven Southeastern states under a
three year grant from the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund. This experiment demonstrated that the col-
lege woman over thirty-five is accepted by graduate
schools and that, returning to studies after long
absence, she can compete and keep up with younger
students. Participants in the College Faculty Pro-
gram (and among them was Sarah Ann McMullen
Lindsey, '47, of Alexandria, Virginia) agreed to
teach in institutions of higher education as a part
of the program, and have found positions on college
and university .staffs. The program has been extend-
ed to other parts of the country, with AAUW Divi-
sions raising the money.

The AAUW program of study and action in-
volves members of each branch in one or more
of four areas of study. Topics have been chosen
according to branch action and include study
materials concerning health, the aging, consumer
education, the arts, financing and staffing of public
schools, the improvement of libraries, educational
and cultural uses of the mass media, equality of
educational opportunity, and work with foreign
students. The four study topics chosen for the 1967-
69 biennium are "The Growing Gap Between the
Rich and the Poor Nations," "Testing Values in a
Changing Society," "The Politics of Public Educa-
tion," and "Society's Reflection in the Arts."

A focal point for the AAUW and a meeting place
for university women is the AAUW Educational
Center, an eight-story building in Washington, D.C.
Here is the office of the General Director, Dr.
Francena L. Miller, a professional staff of more
than twenty to provide guidance to the branches,
and a library. At Sweet Briar College, the branch
of the AAUW is headed by Byrd Stone, '56,Instruc-
tor in Education and Director of the Nursery School.

Alumna Extraordinaire

"Who's Afraid of Twentieth Century
Theatre" was the title of the paper given by
Joan Vail Thome last June at the Alumnae
College. So numerous have been the requests
for copies that the editors of this magazine
decided to print the complete text in order
that all alumnae might study and enjoy it.
Joan was the first alumna to be a member of
the faculty for Sweet Briar's annual Alumnae
College.

Majoring in drama, Joan received her
Bachelor of Arts degree from Sweet Briar in
1951. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to
study repertory theatre in the United Kingdom
after she had earned her Master of Arts at
The Catholic University of America in 1953.

In 1954 she was Assistant to the Director
of the Broadway production. All Summer
Long, and then became the Director and
Assistant to Managing Director, Arena Stage,
Washington, D.C. Since then, this talented
alumna has been Executive Director of
American Theatre Wing Community Plays; the
Stage Manager, General Electric Audio
Products Preview; Director, Elmwood Theatre,
Nyack, N.Y.; Director, Plays for Living, a
Division of The Family Service Association
of America, New York City; and now is
Director, Riverdale Community Theatre,
Riverdale, N.Y.

In 1967 she wrote IVell of the World, com-
missioned by New York State Health Depart-
ment and produced by Plays for Living.

In private life Joan is Mrs. John W. Thorne,
III. Her husband is an advertising executive
and they and their three children Vail, Tracy,
and John W., IV live at Hastings-on-Hudson.
The remarkably successful Sweet Briar
alumnae meetings in Westchester County, N.Y.
"Sunday Salons." have been the products
of this young woman's imagination and talents.

Who's

Afraid of

Twentieth

Century

Theatre???

lam!!!

Not in the sense of abject terror, but in the
sense of awe and amazement, intimidation and in-
dignation. That is, in the sense of the fear of God
that was vested in me by what artists and apologists
of twentieth century theatre from Ibsen to lonesco
might aptly describe as my conditioned bourgeois
beginnings.

And in the private harbor or hell, depending upon
one's persuasion, of such beginnings, in the womb
or the trap, depending upon one's predicament, of
such conditioning, I feel myself threatened by this
theatre of the twentieth century, this theatre that
is nothing if not the theatre of change.

It can be comforting to observe how tempered by
time is the threat of the plays from the first quarter
of the century for example — no one is psychically
unsettled by Shaw anymore. It can also be comfort-
ing to observe that a bumper crop of our contem-
porary playwrights are under forty, and that if
Shakespeare raged in his middle years with Hamlet,
Macbeth. Lear, and Othello, and was apparently
resigned in the latter days with The Tempest. The
Winter's Tale, and Cymbeline, and Sophocles raged
in his middle years with Oedipus Rex and was re-
signed later with Oedipus at Collonus, so may our
playwright rage now and be resigned later.

But I find these small, false comforts. Could it
be we just hide in the long skirts of say Chekhov
and muffle our ears with the taffetas? And where
can we hide amidst the boots and spooks of Strind-
berg? And is it just, in the cases of Shakespeare and
Sophocles, that a man, be he artist or no, can rage
and roar and revel just so long, that the other side
of this coin is comedy and contemplation, but that
the basic metal is the same?

And am I not left with a fear of twentieth cen-
tury theatre, albeit akin to the fear of God? And

does the former fear not stem from the latter fear.
I fear the Lord, and am afraid of the theatre that
is not afraid not to fear the Lord that I fear.

Now, my God may not be your God. Your God
may be spelled with a small "g" for "goodness" or
a small "s" for "socialism" or a small "e" for
"ethical culture" or a small "h" for "humanism"
or a small "m" for "moral rearmament", etc., etc.
But our gods are more like to each other than they
are like to the "no-God", the "non-God", the "a-
God", sometimes even the "anti-God", of much
of twentieth century theatre.

In other words, we are believers in a theatre of
disbelief. We are committed in a theatre of dis-
engagement. We are devout in a theatre of blas-
phemy. We are complacent in a theatre of change.
We readily concede that all is not right with the
world, but our gods are in their heavens, and we
should not like to see their inevitability temporized,
their absolutes relativized, their divinities undone.
We even allow ourselves one or two private heresies,
but they are variances from our creeds, not denials
of them, not denials of the meta-physical possibility
of them.

I may not have accurately fixed your philosophi-
cal position, but I have more or less capsuled mine.
I've bared the bosom of my prejudice, because I
certainly don't pretend not to have one. Because
I suspect, since you're here at this time in time and
place in place, that you have one too, and that it's
philosophical first cousin to mine. And, because
1 believe that some prejudice, meaning for as well as
against, is as much our birthright — birthmark, if
you will — as breath and death.

If this is where I stand, and where you perhaps
stand with me, where do we stand together vis-a-vis
twentieth century theatre? Well, twentieth century
theatre is a thing with a thousand faces, but it can
be safely said that all the faces of that theatre that

are, were, or will be acknowledged as art; one and
all look away from the status quo. And it would not
be irresponsible or prodigal to view the more com-
petent and compelling playwrights of the immediate
era as prophets of the purposeless universe, oracles
of the orderless, psalmists of nothingness.

We, of the systems, the structures, the hierarchies,
the orthodoxies, we are the enemy. It's the infidels
who're crusading now, and they carry not a cross
but a cipher as their standard. We hold the Un-
holy Land in a Reign of Terrible Illusion, and
they are the Eloquent if Ignoble Knights of Truth
at Any Price. There are some of these warriors who
dread that price of truth as fervently as Ibsen did.
There are others who refuse to pay it because they
see it only as the kickback of illusion, as Pirandello
did. None of them lusts for conquest, because there
are no spoils. But all of them refuse to let us win
with out eyes closed. And that's the way they see
us — with our eyes closed to the reality of the human
condition, the only reality that's seeable, so they
say, on this side of the grave.

Their anthem is as modern as Camus, and I
quote from The Myth of Sisyphus:

"The certainty of the existence of a God who
would give meaning to life has a far greater
attraction than the knowledge that without him
one could do evil without being punished. The
choice between these alternatives would not be
difficult. But there is no choice, and that is
where the bitterness begins."
And their motto is as ancient as Democritus; "No-
thing is more real than Nothing."

For the strongest dose of nihilism, history can
sometimes be the handiest antidote. Even the
frightening familiarities breed contempt. And re-
bellion is no parvenu to the theatre.

Disestablishmentarianism — and there is such a
word in the new dictionary, whose meaning I'm

arbitrarily extending to encompass any anti- es-
tablishment attitude — disestablishmentarianism has
always been the posture of the theatre. The most
conventional course in playwriting teaches that
conflict is the heart of the drama, and society has
always afforded an easy mark to conflict with.

At a sufficiently safe historical distance, however,
revolution can look like evolution. Lack of imme-
diate involvement renders our sensitivities to radi-
cal change inert. The view is even more obscured
in the case of Greek drama by the fact that the
drama was then religion, that the theatre was the
temple, and that the playwrights were the priests
who wrote their own liturgy. Few of the reforms
they wrought on that stronghold of the status quo,
Greek theology, seem to us even small rebellions,
because they were wrought from within, by the
theologians themselves — the playwrights. Even the
apparently pious Aeschylus put the pressure on
Olympus, and domesticated some of the savage
deities: to wit, The Eumenides. The 'moderate'
Sophocles refused to cast man as "flies to wan-
ton boys," made him in Oedipus agent, as well as
instrument, of his fate, and inevitably tamed the
savage "sporting" gods still further. And there are
few Greek scholars who do not see outright agnos-
ticism in Euripides' cavalier maneuvering of the
gods in some plays, and his almost total indifference
to them in others.

If these were the writers who were winning the
"Tonies" (the theatre's equivalent of the Oscars)
of their time, you can just imagine what was going
on in the Athenian Off and Off-Off Broadway lofts
and coffee houses! And do consider the distinct
possibility that one of the steadiest customers of
these demi-monde establishments was that all-
time-great disturber of the status quo, Socrates,
who was, no doubt, as barefooted or sandled as
the best of our beatniks!

It requires an even subtler vision to sight unadul-
terated rebellion in Shakespeare. Contemporary cri-
tics may see him in the mirror of their own skep-
ticism. Witness Martin Esslin's (The Theatre of the
Absurd) *'. . . there is in Shakespeare a very strong
sense of the futility and absurdity of the human condi-
tion." And Robert Bvuslein's (The Theatre of Revolt)
"Shakespeare's tragic heroes peer into a vast abyss."
But my prejudice and I find in Shakespeare as many
affirmations as we do denials of the eternal verities:

Henry V: God Almighty! There is some soul of
goodness in things evil. Would men
observingly distil it out.

Hamlet: There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Roughhew them how we will
The fact is that Shakespeare's is the most complete
canvas in all dramas, if not all literature, and em-
braces both sides of any coin.

Still we need be reminded that while the Eliza-
bethan playwrights were not the masters of the
Establishment, they were its servants. Shakespeare's
and Richard Burbage's company was the Lord
Chamberlain's Men, and it is unlikely that the resi-
dent playwright would bite the hand that fed him.
Even the supremely satirical Ben Jonson and
Moliere spared their monarchs, James I and Louis
XIV, their barbs, and concentrated their fire on
the sub-establishment of the bourgeoisie.

Not even the Royal Shakespeare Company of
today, for all its audacity and daring in perform-
ing Marat desade. The Homecoming, US (a pastiche
of documentary materials on the Vietnam war),
has seemed inclined to attack the monarch who is
its patron, through anti-monarchial attitudes would
not be unlikely among its emancipated artists. Ex-
pediency operates even in the holiest sanctuaries
of art!

Now, in the "people's republic" of the United
States of America, disestablishmentarianism finds

a loud and vicious voice in Macbird. an adaptation
of Macbeth at the expense of President Johnson.
Admitted, Macbird may be an unusually extreme ex-
pression of the phenomemon, but in the theatres of
the world today antiestablishmentarianism, shall we
say, is as prominent as playacting: The Blacks —
anti-white. The Deputy — anti-pope. Chips with
Everything and The Brig — anti-army, Look Back
in Anger — anti-upper class. Oh What a Lovely War
and Mother Courage — anti-war. Who knows, may-
be we'll come to be known in the twenty-first
century as the "anti"-era! We definitely are the
emancipated era, and there is the possibility that
we're not that much more "anti" than our ances-
tors. We're just allowed to say so!

With that possibility square in mind, and our
prejudice hot in hand, let's look at the staples of
twentieth century theatre — the plays themselves,
from the first three-fifths of the century— //-o/m
Ibsen to lonesco.

There are three giants of the modern drama —
Chekhov, who died in 1904, Ibsen who died in
1906, and Strindberg who died in 1912 — who just
barely crossed the threshold of the century. But
their spirits are so contemporary, and their artis-
tic souls such children of our inconstant era that
attention must be paid them. Furthermore, theii
celebrated genius, which did indeed generate the
current dramatic energies and intuitions, lends
ballast to a still unproven aesthetic.

Any schema for dividing the plays for discussion
is an expedient rather than an inevitable classifi-
cation. The purer and finer the work of art, the
more likely it is to burst its critical seams. But for
our critical purposes, we must put critical seams.

If at the alpha end of the spectrum are the plays
of human acceptance, of universal order, of divine
and human authority — The Plays Of Dedication —
and at the omega end are the plays of futility, ennui,
and chaos — The Plays Of Dissolution — and inbe-
tween are the plays that are moving at one speed or
another from the alpha conformity to the omega
confusion — The Plays Of Dissent — we have the
basics of a scale with which to measure the relevance
of twentieth century theatre. And revelance is the
acid and the aesthetic test. Does this drama mani-
fest to man the real and imagined and as yet un-
imagined predicament of his place in time? That is
highest purpose.

It is painfully obvious that the first unit For Plays
Of Dedication is not a populous pigeonhole. I think
I could count the plays of "pure" affirmation that
I know on the fingers of one hand. And perhaps
tl\is dearth is germane to the essence of the drama.
Drama doesn't really deal in contentment or con-
tainment. It has much more to do with psychic ex-
plosion than with psychic adjustment. The affirma-
tion in a great tragedy is inevitably indirect and
paradoxical. Suffice it to say, it has to do with dying.
And in classic comedy, it has to do with cursing —
cursing the social disease it treats to the point of
curing it.

In any case, any romantic would allow that a
work of art, like a thing of beauty, is its own af-

firmation. A grotesque subject beautifully wrought
can ultimately be more beautiful than a beautiful
subject grossly wrought. Consider the Greek
Medusas, the medieval gargoyles, Milton's Lucifer,
Shakespeare's lago. Consider now some of the coar-
ser Christmas decorations from the season past or a
Miss America doing her first television commercial.

Fortunately for the established measurement
scale, there are a few clearly affirmative plays that
provide, as it were, the exception to prove the rule.
There are two all time greats that alone would
warrant the separate classification. They are Thorn-
ton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town, and
I think one could safely acclaim Wilder as master
of the form. Unfortunately, he has written too few
plays— affirmative and otherwise. Giradoux's The
Madwoman of Chaillot would be another of my
nominations, John Millington Synge's Playboy of
the Western World, and somehow, in spite of his
revolutionary Irishness and some rather wild ec-
centricities, Brendan Behan's The Hostage. Let me
enter in evidence a song from The Hostage, that a
corpse rises up from the stage to sing:

"The bells of hell

Go ting-a-ling-a-ling

For you but not for me.

Oh death where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?

Or grave thy victory?"

A play that's recently been celebrated in celluloid
deserves the final mention in the first category of
dedication — Robert Bolt's Man for All Seasons. No
doubt, a large part of its popularity springs from
modern man's starvation for the standards and
sacrifice and integrity-at-all-costs to be found in
its hero. Sir Thomas More. Let it be noted, how-
ever, that the model of such nobility of charac-
ter had to be exhumed from almost ancient history.

Against what Robert Brustein might call this
"theatre of communion" stands the "theatre of re-
volt" and the plays of the great insurgent modern
dramatists. Brustein distinguishes the kinds of re-
volt reduced to dramatic form as (1) messianic
revolt — when the dramatist rebels against God and
tries to take His place, (2) social revolt— when the
dramatist rebels against conventions, morals, and
values of the social organism, and (3) existential
revolt— when the dramatist rebels against the con-
ditions of his existence.

Messianic revolt can be equated with our middle
of the spectrum plays of dissension that have de-
signs for reconstruction, while social revolt can be
seen in the plays of dissension that harrangue con-
temporary society without necessarily implying an
alternative course. It must be well remembered,
however, that the drama of dissension, either in
messianic or social form, presupposes the possibility
of a social structure by dissenting from it and some-
times suggesting substitutes /or it. Just as Nietzsche,
"the most seminal philosophical influence on the
theatre of revolt," according to Brustein, in Thus
Spake Zarathustra, declared one God dead and
promptly proceeded to construct another— that he
called the Superman.

It is relevant that the plays of dissension are, for

the most part, our inheritance from the nineteeth
century, and, in a sense, the infancy of the twen-
tieth. Once God was pronounced dead by Nietzsche,
the inadequacy of God substitutes became more
and more transparent, and the time became more
and more a prey to disenchantment with the manu-
facture of God-dolls.

Meanwhile, certain of our greatest dramatists
indulged their gigantic messianic egos — their in-
heritance from the Romanticism of the last of the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries — and, as
Brustein sees it, imagined themselves as Creators
superior to God, destined to transform life into a
vast improvement on the chaos of the first crea-
tion. In this self-appointed authority, they molded
superman heroes who confirm Albert Camus' in-
sight into the aims of rebellion — "to kill God and
to build a Church."

Such grandiose schemes produced plays that are
tendentious, poetical in language, and as pompous
as demi-gods can be. Despite a certain majesty they
are, like Strindberg's Road to Damascus. Ibsen's
Brand, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, and O'Neill's
The Great God Brown all too little read and less
often produced.

Fortunately for theatre audiences, their talented
playwrights turned to the plays of dissension that
protest the "chaos of the first Creation" without
attempting another Genesis. In this form are couch-
ed the most celebrated works of the modern stage
by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht,
Pirandello, Synge, Lorca, O'Casey, O'Neil, Arthur
Miller, John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, et al.

Just as the ideal of the golden mean appalled
the philosophical godfather of their protest, Niet-
zsche, so middle values, middle emotions, and ex-
pecially middle classes seem to enrage the dissenting
playwrights. Chekhov deplored the middle class'
preachy pretensions and their lack of resolve;
Strindberg, their sheer cowardice; Brecht, their
hypocrisy and greed; Pirandello, their meddling and
scandal-mongering; O'Neil, their Philistinism. And,
while their indictments may seem temperate com-
pared with the 'nuclear' attacks of many of today's
dramatists, the observer who dares to peep out from
behind the traditional petticoats must wonder if their
rhetorical weaponry wouldn't have been modern-
ized and 'nuclearized" had they lived in the atomic
age. He must wonder if such spiritual sleuths as
these dramatists wouldn't have looked behind the
ideal of moderation that informs today's social and
spiritual democracies, behind the benign counten-
ance that reflects the security of the "freedoms
from." and find there those nightmare images of
the dark night of the soul that fill our mental hos-
pitals, swell our suicide lists, crowd our marriage
counselors, and keep our bars in business.

Of course, if Peter Weiss' picture of the Asylum
of Charendon is at all accurate, their lunatics put
ours to shame, and the Marquis de Sade was an
appropriate if self-appointed Messiah. Then again,
even in Weiss' play de Sade was adjudged insane.
Nowadays he is assiduously studied by a distinguish-
ed band of our sanest and most clear sighted citizens.

This last is sheer facetiousness on my part, of
course, but what is not is the question of how the
great modern dramatists of yesterday would re-
spond to today's middle class morality. It is not
a question that can be answered, but, for a proper
perspective on twentieth century theatre, it is one
that must be asked.

There are several dramatists of dissent who de-
serve a swift but special mention. The first, is,
appropriately enough, the oft-called "father of
modern drama," Henrik Ibsen. As Walter Kerr
testified in a Sunday article some months ago
Ibsen is beginning to show his age. But it's the
body that's wilting, not the mind or the passion.
Against the complete freedom, if not anarchy, of
form in contemporary drama, the "well-made"
play in which Ibsen chose to do most of his work,
creaks disconcertingly on its calculated hinges,
and its scheming secondary characters seem to have
bpen caught in slightly soiled collars and cuffs.
But the ambivalence of his themes have a con-
temporaneity that Albee might envy. Consider the
ftitility of advanced opinions in Ghosts, the dispair
of inner ennoblement in Rosmersholm, the perfect
marriage with the core of straw in A Doll's House,
the true necessity of illusion in The Wild Duck. This
kind of Ibsenian dialectic is as time proof as energy,
but the wellmade play form is patently well worn.
Anton Chekhov, the man and his work, is one
of my madder passions, and so I'll spare you pure
prejudice and let him speak for himself:

"I am not a liberal and not a conservative, not
an evolutionist, not a monk, not indifferent to
the world. I would like to be a free artist — and
that is all . . . " "It is the duty of the judge to
put the questions to the jury correctly, and it is
for members of the jury to make up their minds,
each according to his taste."
"I believe in individual personahties scattered
over all Russia — they may be intellectuals, or
peasants ..."
How then can one possible classify Chekhov as a
dramatist of dissent. Well, anyone who has seen an
adequate production of one of his four great plays
will know that however objective the dramatist de-
termines to be, his compassionate pen cries out with
all its eloquence at the despondency, the desperation,
the dispossession of Russia in a pre-revolutionary
pressure cooker.

Hear Chekhov again in a moment that is so hu-
man it runs to contradiction: "All I wanted was to
say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves
and see how bad and dreary your lives are!" The
truth will out, and the truth is that he did battle
with the indolence, vacuity, irresponsibility, and
inertia of the middle and upper classes, and with
the spreading mediocrity, vulgarity, and cruelty
among the mass of men. The one, of course,
threatened the other, and thus set up the conflict
that forms the basic substance of Chekhov's plays.
His biographer, David Magershack, puts the
finger on the moralist in Chekhov when he main-
tains that the author's concern with "life as it is"
was eventually modified by the growing conviction

that "life as it is is life as it should not be."

There's the seed and the kernel of Chekhov's
dissent, and the only confusion lies in the fact that
Chekhov was a supreme artistic sneak, concealing
his craft and mitigating his morality — with sym-
pathy for both the dispossessors, who were the in-
struments of inevitable change, and the dispossess-
ed, who were the victims of their own complacency.

In other words, Chekhov loathed the sin and lov-
ed the sinner. On this apparent equivocation he
built a bridge between morality and reality, rebellion
and acceptance.

The clarion call of dissent comes in the comedy of
George Bernard Shaw. His is a "frankly doctrinal
theatre" designed to replace the "romantic" tradi-
tion of what he called "mere artists" like William
Shakespeare. He would substitute facts, as they were
written in the gospel according to Shaw,which was,
in large part, the gospel of Fabian Socialism, and he
would substitute those facts for fanciful fictions.
The irony is, of course, that he is remembered for
his ineffable fancy far more than for his Fabian
Socialism.

There is another dimension to Shaw that draws
him closer to today than either his fancy or his
Fabian Socialism, and that is the wellspring of a
deep rebellion that has indeed revolutionized our
theatre and made words like "absurdism," "aliena-
tion," and "cruelty" its working vocabulary. For
the most part, Shaw wore the mask of the dedicated.

hopeful, and cheerful ethical reformer, but in
Heartbreak House where bombs are falling and rum
is running, in the imaginative extravagances of
Back to Methusaleh, and in the bodiless character
of the Superman in Man and Superman, there is
an awareness of the profound spiritual poverty of
the human condition that is even suggestive of his
countryman, Samuel Beckett.

It is not surprising that Shaw was the playwright
most admired by Bertold Brecht, who is himself
thought by many contemporary theatre critics and
artists to be the greatest playwright of the century.
Alan Schneider, the director who has staged all the
Broadway productions of Edward Albee's plays and
all the professional American productions of
Beckett and Pinter, even he, with his respect and
loyalty to such dramatists as these, has expressed
the opinion that Brecht is the greatest playwright
of our time, and that Mother Courage, and not The
Death of a Salesman, is the modern tragedy.

Brecht's life with its uneasy truces and alliances
is a drama all its own, but the only aspect requiring
mention here is the fact that he was a committed
communist. It's a temptation to soften the blow of
his political persuasion for western audiences, but
the fact remains that he was a loyal member of the
communist party, more than once proven capable of
compromising art for purely propagandistic purposes.

However, it's interesting, if falsely reassuring,
to hear more than one critic analyze his communism

as, in part at least, the indirect result of an ob-
session with the darker side of human nature and
his own (quoting Brustein again) "morbid, sensual,
and anarchical" self. In that light, communism be-
comes a discipline he chose to impose, with a
mighty effort of the will, upon his unruly psyche.

According to Martin Esslin, who is responsible
for a highly respected study of Brecht, communism
dispelled for him "the nightmare of absurdity, and
offered him a form of rational control over his
frightening individualism . . ." The suggestion is,
of course, that he put on his ideology as an ascetic
his hair shirt. And the fact is that he consistently
wore a worker's collarless shirt as if it were a
monk's habit.

Whereas, he might have managed to master him-
self with ideology, his great plays are a different
matter. They have a breadth that explodes political
pattern. Especially in his relentless attacks on the
inconsistencies and incongruities of Christianity he
sounds more heretical than unbelieving.

There are five plays that Ronald Gray, an English
critic, finds certainly not anti-communist, but, on
the other hand, not primarily political. And they are
Mother Courage, The Life of Galileo. The Good
Woman of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and
Herr Puntila and His Man Matti. They are tolerant
yet insistent on justice, comprehending rather than
persuading. They offer tender lyricism and agony of
mind, admiration of ordinary life and buffooning
zest in wine, women and song, sharp compassion for
the poor and a not unsympathetic portrayal of the
pleasures of the rich. In short, they present the
"human comedy."

It's this magnitude that causes some among his
ardent admirers to see Brecht as a kind of twentieth
century Shakespeare. His admixture of the tragic
and the comic, the sacred and the secular, the sublime
and the slime is indeed Shakespearian. What is unlike
Shakespeare is his inverse, disenchanted, or black
romanticism, and this gives rise to a so-called excre-
mentalism that's unmistakable, but never unimagina-
tive. One of his most remarkable creations is the hero
of one of his earliest and most savage plays, Baal, who
expires at the end of the piece in the most hideous cir-
cumstances, declaring the world "the excrement of
God." I shall spare you further examples of this ingre-
dient of his style, assuring you the while that though
it's foul, "it's fair as foul and foul as fair," a far cry
from Le Roi Jones and the writing on washroom walls.

Brecht forms a perfect bridge between the drama
of dissent and the drama of dissolution, because his
revolt seeks and finds two such levels. At the top it is
directed against the hypocrisy, avarice, and injustice
of bourgeois society, and he prescribes radical com-
munist surgery to cut out the social cancer. In the
depths it rails against the disorder of the universe
and chaos in the human soul. But in the last analysis,
he is nor a nihilist. He pulls himself up by the hair shirt
and proclaims in a deeply religious poem:

"He who is defeated cannot escape from Wisdom.
Hold on to yourself and sink. Be afraid.
But sink. At the bottom
The lesson awaits you."

There we have the four elders of the modern
drama — all dramatists of dissent, striking out
against the existing social structure, but not question-
ing the ontology of it: Ibsen and Chevkhov not
suggesting any particular substitute for it; Shaw and
Brecht, both preaching reconstruction in their
separate brands of socialism.

One cannot depart the drama of dissent without
allusion to the documentary play — the so-called
theatre of fact — that has recently taken up residence
mainly in Germany, and been exported to America.
The form needs no exhaustive explanation for an
audience that has cut its teeth on TV, except that the
so-called theatre of fact can be more or less factual:
witness the wild controversies over Hochhuth's The
Deputy.

One of the admittedly less factual and infinitely
fanciful examples of the form is the famous and in-
famous Marat de Sade, a vehicle that allowed its
brilliant director, Peter Brook to mount one of the
most masterful theatre productions I shall see in my
lifetime. It was so masterful, in fact, that it rather
eclipsed the social and political considerations that
are generic to the documentary form, and at the heart
of the author's communist intention, and turned the
occasion into an aesthetic triumph.

One still cannot leave this bloc of twentieth century
theatre without at least calling two more names, Sean
O'Casey and Arthur Miller. O'Casey was mentioned
previously as an affirmative playwright, but he, in
justice, is affirmative only in effect. The subject
material of his great plays, Juno and the Paycock. and
The Plough and the Stars are loud cries of dissent,
since they take their fictional life right out of the
Irish rebellion. Was it not Juno the Paycock himself
who contributed the most irresistable watchword of
the movement: "The whole worl's in a terr. . .ibel
state o' chassis."

All I shall say of Arthur Miller at this juncture is
purely personal. When I saw the recent revival of

The Death of A Salesman on television, I marvelled
at the supremely theatrical portrait of a man who
sold himself so short with self-delusion. What I
know of Arthur Miller told me that I should indict
society for Willie Loman's crimes against himself,
because it had set the standards for him. That way I
would have been drawn into the play's social dissent.
But my response was for Willie against Willie. And
though I've no stomach for that "well-liked" and
little loving society of his, society as such just didn't
enter into it — my response, that is.

For Miller's recent After the Fall I would have to
create a new category. Despite all his protests, I
would call it confessional theatre.

There is another immensely important American
playwright whom I can't seem to fit into my theme
at all. And while the exception gives me that
proverbial confidence in the rule, I don't know what
to do but take a quick detour. He's worth much
more than that because he's Tennessee Williams, and
because his Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named
Desire are going down as American classics.

He just isn't classifiable as dedication, dissent,
dissolution or distraction, because his profound con-
cerns are not with the self in a society to which he's
dedicated or from which he dissents. They are for
the self inside the self, and how they seldom fit and
mostly jar. I strongly suspect, over numerous critical
objections, I've no doubt, that to Tennessee Williams,
society is the South, and the South is a place and not
a state. For Williams, the only state that matters is
the psyche, and it surely is in a state of chassis.
That's twentieth century enough without any social
or cosmic implications.

What dates Williams is his compassion. However
rotten the psyche, he finds it worth saving, and
that's an affirmation all its own.

Well, now we've arrived at the pit of our fear, the
nightmare theatre that would suck us all into dreams
and overturn our very reality. Or would it, could it
find our orthodoxies the first fibre of resistance!
There's the threat and the cowardice of an adoles-
cent bully in this twentieth century theatre. After all,
it's picking its fight with what it considers the paper
tiger of faith and works. And, after all, its watched
the paper tiger puff itself up from one war of libera-
tion to the next war of preservation from the Pelo-
ponesus to Vietnam, from Plato to Norman Vincent
Peale; and it's watched the paper tiger breathing
the fire of the Kingdom, from the kingdom of
philosopher-kings to the kingdom of kingdom-come.

Still, I dare to submit that this theatre's deepest
unspoken wish is that the tiger devour it and prove
it hopelessly wrong and hopefully saved. The
saddest fact for the "new" theatre is that the paper
tiger keeps turning the other cheek while blowing
itself up to the point of bursting.

What we are wont to forget is that the nightmare
has been with us as long as the tiger. That the
theatre of dissolution didn't arrive announced, that
it had its heralds in the illustrious names above. Not
only Brecht and Shaw but Ibsen and Strindberg and
Chekhov and Pirandello had one toe in the drama
of dispersion and diffusion, in short, in the theatre

of the separation of body from soul.

Of course, the discovery that someone we love has
been party to something we loath can have one of
two results. We can reconsider the something
loathed or drop the someone loved. For those in-
clined to reconsideration, the following observations
are relevant.

The author of the Absurd philosophy is Albert
Camus. Prompted by the unparalleled material
destruction and spiritual disintegration of the last
war, he saw the problem of the paper tiger this way:
"A world that can be explained by reasoning,
however faulty, is a familiar world. But in a
universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions
and of light, man feels a stranger. His is an irre-
mediable exile, because he is deprived of
memories of a lost homeland as much as he
lacks the hope of a promised land to come. This
divorce between man and his life, the actor and
his setting, truly constitutes the feeling of
Absurdity.'
In many respects "absurd" is an unfortunate
epithet for a philosophy or a theatre. Its connota-
tions run to ridiculous, while what it means is "devoid
of destiny." Brustein calls it "existential revolt,"
which has nothing to do with the fashionable French
philosophy as a formal system of thought, but with a
rejection of the terms of the human condition, an
outcry at the void of human existence.

According to George Wellwrath in his study of
developments in the avant-garde drama, entitled The
Theater of Protest and Paradox. Camus advocated
protest and defiance as the only means possible of
"nullifying the cruelty of the cosmic power on a
temporal level."

It is the theatre of dissolution that took up his
challenge. Although neither the terms nor the
theatres are synonomous, the theatre of the absurd
occupies by far the most spacious and prominent
seat in the theatre of dissolution. And there is no
more authoritative a critical voice in the English
language for absurdism in the drama than that of
Martin Esslin. Before meeting some of these dis-
quieting plays in a dark alley, as it were, it would be
fortifying to hear from Esslin about the formlessness
of their form:

"Most of the incomprehension with which
plays of this type are still being received by
critics and theatrical reviewers, most of the be-
wilderment they have caused and to which they
still give rise, come from the fact that they are
part of a new, and still developing, stage con-
vention that has not yet been generally under-
stood and has hardly ever been defined. Inevita-
bly, plays written in this new convention will,
when judged by the standards and criteria of
another, be regarded as impertinent and outrag-
eous impostures. If a good play must have a
cleverly constructed story, these have no story
or plot to speak of; if a good play is judged by
subtlety of characterization and motivation,
these are often without recognizable characters
and present the audience with almost mechani-
cal puppets; if a good play has to have a fully

explained theme, which is neatly exposed and
finally solved, these often have neither a begin-
ning nor an end; if a good play is to hold the
mirror up to nature and portray the manners
and mannerisms of the age in finely observed
sketches, these seem often to be reflections of
dreams and nightmares; if a good play relies on
witty repartee and pointed dialogue, these often
consist of incoherent babblings."
This deliberate obfuscation gives rise to a com-
plete relocation of the traditional elements of the
drama. Plot, which has previously meant simply
story or development from beginning to middle to
end is, in the hands of the absurdists, a sequence of
disjointed incidents, which had better be called "con-
tinuum." It's like a friction toy that has been over-
turned, getting nowhere while its wheels keep
spinning ferverously and futilely.

Character, accustomed to mean a motivated indi-
vidual human being becomes unmotivated, not
predestined by rather M«destined "incarnations" of
appetites or social roles.

Theme is no longer meaning or moral, since
morality is a myth and everything is meaningless.
It's at best an implication, or "intuition" or premon-
ition.

And dialogue or language that is designed to
reveal the cliches and obscurities in our everyday
speech is more a medium of "implosion" rather than
expression.

Because the dramatists of the absurd are so organ-
ically opposed to the idea and the practice of intellec-
tual analysis, I shall not attempt to subject them to
that kind of scrutiny. I shall, however, cite each of
four major so-called absurdists in developing the
contention that they have so altered the traditional
form of the drama that it can never be the same.

Samuel Beckett, who is, in my personal opinion
the purest artist of absurdism, should be considered
in the light of his handling of what was once plot,
and is in his plays "continuum." The evidence is in
the very title of his magnum opus. Waiting for
Godot. Reliable critics agree that, despite all the
metaphysical speculation, the play is not about
Godot, but about the waiting for Godot. And the
waiting never changes in quality, only in quantity.
And the quality is of eternal ennui, unreal events,
illusionary, ineffectual change.
Hear Beckett himself in Godot:

". . . one day we were born, one day we'll die,
the same day, the same second . . . They give
birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an
instant, then it's night once more."
"Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down
in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on
the forceps."
George Wellwrath in his study of avant-garde of
drama entitled The Theatre of Protest and Paradox
suggests that Beckett makes Schopenhauer look like
a gay optimist and Nietzsche like a devout believer.
And, it's testament to either the perversity or the
immortality in man that makes some men see in
Beckett a myth of grace and salvation, a confirma-
tion of faith.

The absurdist use of categorical characters is per-
haps best explored in the plays of a second genius of
Absurdism, Jean Genet. The title of one of his best
known plays is a case in point. The Blacks, an
unindividualized, tribal incarnation of the instinc-
tual response of the persecuted, revenge. But it is in
his other well known piece. The Balcony, that his
manipulation of character is most clearly manifested.
Four of the principal characters are known by the
names of social positions: the Bishop, the Judge, the
General, the Chief of Police. And this playing up of
the playing of roles is organic to Genet. For his
theatre is a theatre of illusion, a hall of mirrors. He
deals in, and he deals out metamorphosis. The
brothel of The Balcony is a pleasure dome where the
nobodies of society come to change themselves into
the somebodies of society who then prove to be
nobodies themselves.

And so, if the archetypal roles of society are pure
illusion, then society is illusion as well. With the
result that Genet keeps clouting society over its
non-existent head!

I've chosen Harold Pinter as exemplar of the ab-
surdist convolution of theme into meaningless
meaning or meaningful meaninglessness. Knowing
that my audience must consist of a considerable
number of avid readers of the drama section of the
Sunday Times, my only responsibility may be to
remind them of the articles that appeared around
the Royal Shakespeare Company's presentation of
Pinter's play. The Homecoming. On January 15,
1967 there was Walter Kerr's Sunday article, entitled
"A Pox on Shocks." On January 27th, there was an
article entitled "The Pinter Puzzle" by the drama
critic of Newsweek. On February 5th, there was
"What's Pinter Up To?" — some educated, some
annoyed, and some enthusiastic guesses, plus letters
to the editor ad nauseam. I don't know what the
drama section will do for copy when the Pinter
Pickle has run its course. Though I was fortunate to
see this brilliantly produced and performed play
before the frenzy set in, I shall not be so supremely
stupid as to venture an analysis of its non-meaning.

What interests me far beyond immediate analysis
is the irony that a theatre convention and a theatre
philosophy, and indeed a play, that disowns or at
least ignores intellect should raise such a storm of
intellectual orgies. Is Pinter being victimized or are
we being duped?

And what should interest you is that the play is
about more than a husband's putting his wife up for
prostitution to his father and two brothers. Some
would say that's quite enough for anything to be
about. But the interpretative problem is that it is not
an "anything" play, it's an "everything" play. The
characters are not flesh and blood people, but again
incarnations of desire, possibility, dimension. If we
are shocked, we are shocked because of what we
expect of them, not because of what they are. And
that is — The New York Times tells me — the warriors
in a mortal combat, not only of the sexes, but
between members of the same sex in their relations
to the opposite sex, for instance, man to woman, son
to mother, husband to wife, father to mother, etc..

etc., and perhaps even between sex and sexlessness.

Obviously, there is no meaning here in the sense
of theme, no thoughts to take home with you, no
aphorisms to work into a sampler for the front hall.
But there are perplexities, innuendos, exasperations,
intimations, in such abundance that I've not yet run
through my supply since I saw the play on January
7th.

Eugene lonesco is the linguistic's expert of the
theatre of the absurd, and a perfect example of the
use of language against itself. He has labeled perhaps
his most famous play The Bald Soprano as a
"tradegy of language." It is a tragedy in his mind,
despite its comedic effect, because the two married
couples who are the characters (I use the word reluc-
tantly, because these characters are also iwpersonifi-
cations of the petty bourgeoisie) are drowning their
identities in cliches, hypocrisies, and extravagances
of language. To lonesco, language is the surface of
the soul. Therefore, the lack of soul is the unseating
of language and the source of lonesco's nonsense
speech. The two couples can no longer talk because
they can no longer think. The can no longer think
because they can no longer be. And, see how we've
come full circle back to existential revolt, the
philosophical basis of the theatre of dissolution!

There are two important playwrights who balance
on the edge of the absurd. One is Edward Albee. His
one-acter. The American Dream, definitely falls on
the other side, as it squarely attacks false values and
sentiments that are as typically American as
progress, optimism, togetherness, and physical fit-
ness, in a distinctly absurdist idiom. The characters
are monoliths — Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, etc.,
and the language is euphemistic baby-talk strongly
reminiscent of lonesco. On the other hand, Albee's
later Zoo Story, in its intimations and explorations
of violence is like Pinter.

Apparently he had been somewhat if savagely
domesticated by the time of Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? Still, the characters are without last names,
only George and Martha (Washington, maybe?).
And the play's director, Alan Schneider, has said
that its subject reaches far beyond domestic strife to
the "inner decay of our society, the loss of moral
values, and the false values with which we seek to
buttress our decaying selves." That's an absurdist
emphasis surely.

Tiny Alice, it's generally agreed, is simply a cere-
bral parlor trick, exasperating to some, and especially
appealing, it seemed, to students and teachers of
theology. The most recent Albee play A Delicate
Balance is again in the domestic scene, but the

natives are less restless and the issues more mature -
or perhaps just less incendiary. There is a nameless
terror that the neighbors in the play carry with them
like a plague, and it serves to set up that indestructi-
ble absurdist gulf between human beings: if I
remember correctly from an early preview, there is a
line in A Delicate Balance that reads, "the only skin
I can put my arms around is my own."

At this juncture Edward Albee seems to me as
much interested in being as non-being, and, of
course, in the inevitable clash between the two. And
this fact lifts him out of the deepest sloughs of
Absurdism's despond, and permits of the possibility
of his charting a more expansive course. Harold
Clurman said this of him in a recent Sunday Times
drama section article after the opening of A Delicate
Balance:

"Albee is 38. I shall be able to offer you a more
considered judgment when he is 58! At 38 Ibsen
had not yet written 'A Doll's House,' 'Ghosts,'
'An Enemy of the People,' 'The Wild Duck' and
most of his other plays — all written after he
was 50. At 38 Shaw had not yet written 'Man
and Superman,' 'Pygmalion,' 'Heartbreak
House,' 'Saint Joan' — all written after he was
45. The point is that Albee is a talented young
playwright in the process of growth."

The other dramatist who has one foot in the
theatre of the absurd is the Swiss Friedrich
Duerrenmatt of The Visit and The Physicists fame.
His is a disillusioned intellectual fantasy that treats
contemporary problems in tragicomedies that have
clear absurdist overtones.

Somewhere between the dramas of dissolution
and dissent, but quite outside the theatre of the
absurd, is England's angry young man, now fast
approaching middle age and possible mediocrity.
But he must be credited with the not inconsiderable
feat of cracking the convention of upper-middle-class
drawing room comedy and its rarefied language that
had ruled the English stage since sometime along
about "The Way of the World." Perhaps exhausted
by this ordeal, he is now resorting to nudity in A
Patriot for Me and constipation in Luther. I'm
certain we can bear both if the dramas warrant —
Luther didn't.

There is a fourth and final unit of measurement
on our scale of twentieth century theatre, and that is
the drama of distraction. It needs and bears no
analysis, but it will be with us for as long as the
commercial theatre is. It's The Odd Couple and Any
Wednesday and The Cactus Flower and The Impossi-
ble Years and Never Too Late and Don't Drink the
Water and Barefoot in the Park, and / Know You
Can't Hear me When the Water's Running and on
and on season after season. It's not precisely my cup

of tea, but I take a drop now and again. And I defend
to the death the right of those who like to drink
deep — just as I permit the purists to despise it.
What, however, has never seemed to me quite sane is
why certain exalted artists who march for this free-
dom and that freedom and the other freedom are
loath to allow the freedom of taste.

Well, we've more or less made the soundings and
the pseudo-measurements. Now we've arrived at the
moment of truth. Is the much ado about nothing-
ness worth something?

There're not many among us who have either
inclination or desire to disturb the classic sleep of
the dear departed giants. Chekhov and Shaw and
Strindberg and Pirandello, even Brecht, would be
neither shaken nor secured on their aesthetic
pedestals by the sum total of our assessments.
They're immured in marble, and personally, I'm
resigned and I rejoice. It's that drama of dissolution
that their dissent spawned. It's the skepticism they
let in, the certainties they let out. It's the philosophi-
cal dust they swept under the rug, the masks they
dropped, the mirrors they cracked. What do we do
about those? How do we put a house in order if
order's a proven illusion? And what's a proven
illusion? In other words, what must the "faithful" do
when dissent becomes disbelief?

Well, I can't remember when apostasy was ever
on a list of the seven deadly sins. Perhaps the first
step is to acknowledge even apostasy's special graces.
To theatre craftsmen the world over there is
charisma in the new theatre's emancipation of the
physical stage itself. Through the preceding century
it had been slave to the box set and the invisible
fourth wall. Thanks in large measure to the influ-
ence of Antonine Artaud -a name not to remain
unmentioned — the stage has come to be a microcosm
of the macrocosm, everywhere and nowhere. Re-
stored to the stage is the ritual out of which it was
born, the option to offer either surfaces or essences.
Restored also, this time by Bertold Brecht, is the
actor's option to be larger than life, to expand him-
self in the role and act as an aesthetic microscope
lens through which the audience may inspect life.
Here again is the return to ritual, the actor's birth-
right.

The drama of the mid-twentielh century may have
reduced the eternal equations, but it has vastly
enlarged the physical form in which to present them.
Now the stage may act as an x-ray, a camera, or a
telescope. Now it may look inside a human life,
around an environment, or out into the universe.

The more ineffable graces of the drama of disper-
sion are best articulated by its own apologists: Martin
Esslin:

"Concerned as it is with the ultimate realities of
the human condition, the relatively few funda-
mental problems of life and death, isolation and
communication, the Theatre of the Absurd,
however grotesque, frivolous, and irreverent it
may appear, represents a return to the original,
religious function of the theatre — the confron-
tation of man with the spheres of myth and
religious reality."

Here is further Esslin apology that I suspect as the
residue of Age of Enlightenment positivism:

"But by facing up to anxiety and despair and
the absence of divinely revealed alternatives,
anxiety and despair can be overcome. The sense
of loss at the disintegration of facile solutions
and the disappearance of cherished illusions
retains its sting only while the mind still clings
to the illusions concerned. Once they are given
up, we have to readjust ourselves to the new
situation and face reality itself. And because the
illusions we suffered from made it more difficult
for us to deal with reality, their loss will ulti-
mately be felt as exhilarating."
I seriously doubt if in the drama of pure dissolu-
tion there is either the intention or the existence or
the promise of such "exhilaration." And 1 strongly
suspect that it's a critic's committment to proportion
and order that works on Mr. Esslin here, and that
he's showing his prejudice now. But I've long ago
admitted that I'm still in my fit of "cherished
illusions," so how could I possibly know?

How could any human know? Haven't the honor-
able religions of the East been striving for centuries
to effect a release, to achieve the ultimate freedom
from all of human experience, and is there an honest
Hindu Swami or Buddhist Zen alive who would
pretend to have run the whole course and arrived at
their nirvanas? Indeed not. The very postulates of
their faiths put this total liberation beyond the
grave, which is exactly where the Greco-Judeo-
Christian tradition of the West puts it. At this point
in history, death is the only release from life. Appar-
ently the deep freeze is running a close second, but
then that surcease is at best temporary, and can last
only as long as the electric current in the refrigera-
tion coils.

That there is an implicit death wish in the drama
philosophically fathered by Nietzsche should come
as no surprise to the cultural children of Freud. But
then there are death wishes wherever there is suffer-
ing. And the only empirical reality is that the
existential rebels, with or without death wishes, are
writing plays and philosophy and not committing
suicide.

There has never been a world without faith, a
human community without communion, faith in
tree toads maybe, or cats' eyes, communion in
Moses, Zeus, Christ, or Karl Marx. And if there has
never been a world without illusion so-called, how
can one be certain that it would be so "exhilarating"
without it.

That atrocities have long been committed in the
name of faith is historical fact. The routing of
one faith has always given rise to another is also
historical fact. Do these facts point anymore clearly

to the corruptibility of faith than to the corruptibility
of human nature? Is breathing bad because the lungs
can be corrupted by cancer? And the final question
— is there any guarantee that the man without faith
is less corruptible than the man with faith?

The Absurdists say he is. And the Absurdists say
they are men without faith, without illusion. And I
say that, in one of the most cruel ironies imaginable,
the Absurdists themselves have been "corrupted" by
that which they profoundly oppose. They too have
faith — faith in the freedom from faith. Without any
palpable evidence, any projections, polls, or statis-
tics, they believe, believe, that this would be a better
world without faith. They've turned relativism into
an absolute.

And their myth has its mystique; the mystique is
mystification: Mumbo-jumbo abounds in the new
drama, as it abounds nowhere else except in religi-
ous ritual. Incantation and litany are almost as evi-
dent in the mystique of non-faith as they are in the
liturgy of established religion.

Is the message here that those who ponder the
imponderable and settle upon profound faith and
those who ponder the imponderable and settle for
profound disbelief are more akin to each other than
to those who never ponder the imponderable at all?
This is not to say that they are not at war, but
that they are enemies fit for each other.

Prepare then for battle, ye legions of the Lord of
I believe. The foe is formidable. His battle hymn
according to Brustein:

"The function of the artist is not to console, not

to adopt a 'responsible' pose, not to support

'optimism' or 'pessimism' — but to reveal,

relentlessly, the truth that lies in the heart of

man and in the heart of the universe. Some of

the greatest works of art, in fact, have achieved

greatness by exposing things which might tempt

us to shoot ourselves, while elevating us with

the prospect of human courage and nobility in

the face of a terrible reality."

Says even a high priest of the orthodoxy of

orthodoxies, Fulton Sheen, "God is never on the

side of the psychic status quo. He comes as the

Great Disturber." Prepare then for battle, ye legions

of the Lord of I believe. Cease to want what is

expected, and ye may find God in Golem.

And while the battle rages, let it be devoutly wished
that we all may say when it is ended — with Sabina
in Skin of our Teeth: "God help me, Mrs. Antrobus,
but I enjoyed the war."

Let Us Give
Thanks for Sweet Briar

by Six Seniors

The Academic Life

bv Patty Skarda '68

Seniors— what a mighty ring that word had four
years ago! The Golden Stairs, the Ring Game, the
academic robe, the class ring all these things were
little more than dreams four years ago! How much
we all looked forward to being Seniors!

The year dawned in all its Senior-splendor and we
revelled in the novelty of Senior traditions. But the
vantage point of our illusory zenith soon altered our
perspective and we awakened from our soporific
prestige. With the challenge of our futures before us
we reflect on the past few years with mixed emotions.
Whether the dominant emotion is one of happiness
or sadness, each Senior certainly feels overwhelmed
with gratitude for all that Sweet Briar has given
her. With a great feeling of indebtedness then we
Seniors approach the altar of God to thank Him
individually and collectively for Sweet Briar College:
Its Assets and Its Gifts.

Our primary purpose at Sweet Briar is without
question to get an education. Everything is focused
on intellectual pursuits with an individual responsi-
bility which prepares us to take our places in a
democratic society. And yet what freedom we have
in our intellectual life at Sweet Briar! Personal
responsibility for class attendance, curriculum
committee for academic adjustments, small classes,
and abundant opportunities for conferences with the
faculty and administration! Chautauquas provide
informal occasions to chat with professors and.
deans and how many colleges can claim as friendly
an atmosphere as that found at faculty coffees and
Hullabalulus?

Truly the faculty and administration at Sweet
Briar are one of her finest assets. And every student
enjoys this intellectual advantage because the finest
professors are not reserved for advanced courses. It
is a rare freshman who is not being taught by at least
one professor who is the head of his department!

The size of Sweet Briar College certainly works to
the students' advantage in assuring them of an
enduring friendship with a member of the faculty
and administration. What a wonderful feeling it is
to be greeted by the College President on a cold
morning in late January or to be invited to the
Dean's home for doughnuts and hot cider on a

lonely Thanksgiving Day! I'll never forget the
professor who thought it such a shame to have class
on Good Friday that she analyzed Donne's "Riding
Westward" instead of lecturing. Neither will I forget
the many times a professor tried not to notice I was
yawning in class or the times he called on me when I
was not prepared. What greater pleasure can there
be than discussing your paper with a professor who
is just as excited about it as you are or than making
your own parallel between courses or than bringing
a movie or recommended book or article to bear on
the course material. And at Sweet Briar the profes-
sors are unique in wanting to enjoy all your progress
along with you because they want to learn too. If
you've ever studied at a large state university even
for a summer session, you can appreciate even more
the personal interest everyone at Sweet Briar takes
in us as students and as real people, too.

Sweet Briar's academic standards are high, we ail
know, and for the challenge of meeting them, we are
thankful. Freshman Honors, Dean's List, and
Junior Honors encourage us to work to the best of
our ability. And the whole class celebrates the
announcement of Phi Beta Kappa elections!

During the three years we Seniors have been at
Sweet Briar, we have witnessed numerous improve-
ments in the curriculum and additions and changes
in the college's faculty. Nothing ever remains the
same from one year to the next because Sweet Briar
is so concerned with progress in every field of
intellectual endeavor. For such unceasing progress
we are grateful.

Tangible evidence of Sweet Briar's growth has
appeared in abundance in the years we have been
here. Remember when the site of this very chapel
was that of the road to the main gate, and remember
the year we had to use the road to walk down to
Babcock from Meta Glass before the walk between
Dew and the Daisy Williams Gymnasium was
finished. Can you imagine having freshman chemistry
lab on the third floor of Benedict and language lab
on first floor Gray in what is now Mrs. Kitchen's
storeroom? Or ask yourself how we got along
without the Connie Guion Science Building or the
Dana Wing on the library or Sweet Briar Memorial
Chapel. For the generosity of our benefactors we
give a special thanks for their providing of the
excellent facilities we have here at Sweet Briar.

Finally as Thanksgiving Day draws near, let us
not forget to thank God for the grand total of our
intellectual stimulation and development gained at
Sweet Briar College.

Freedom Here

by Melinda Brown '68

One of the most important aspects of life at Sweet
Briar is the climate of intellectual and academic
freedom that is encouraged here. Occasionally, we
may doubt that we have this freedom — we may
challenge the premise by wearing mod clothes or by
sneering at the freshman reading list; we may write

editorials or pass out pamphlets. But the fact that
we are allowed to do these things — that we have the
freedom to question intelligently and to criticise
sincerely — is a freedom that people in other
countries are willing to die for.

It's true that the times, as Bob Dylan said, are
a'changing: and at Sweet Briar we have been extended
another important freedom. A freedom that can be
exercised safely only by adults. This is the freedom
of choice. We are free to choose whether to study or
whether to fritter our time away (for a while at
least); we are free to choose whether to extend our
hands in friendship to new students or to retreat
into an ivory tower; free to choose a genuine pursuit
of knowledge; free to drink or not to; free to choose
our own goals. Our honor system guides us, our
professors inspire us, friends and advisors counsel
us — but the choice is ours, when we accept our
responsibility as adults. Because of this, we have the
privilege of open stack, self-scheduling of exams,
and many other responsiblities.

There's a great song, done by the Monkees, that
I'd like to quote for you because it expresses in part
how we feel about Sweet Briar:

Well, I saw her face / Now I'm a believer
There's not a trace or / Doubt in my mind
I'm in love, yes, I'm a believer / I couldn't
leave her if I tried.
We're "believers" in the sense that we believe in
Sweet Briar. We believe in what the college stands
for, and we believe in what we as students can con-
tribute to the college. And, more importantly, we
believe in our abilities to accept the great freedom
given to us at Sweet Briar. So . . . we're in love, yes,
we're believers.

Our Traditions

bv Connie Williams '68

Why should we be thankful for traditions at Sweet
Briar? What would it be like without them — no
Founder's Day, no step-singing, no Junior Banquet,
to name a few.

In the first place traditions make the abstract
seem more real. Founder's Day, for instance, is the
concrete acknowledgement of our gratitude to the
founders of Sweet Briar as is Lantern Bearing the
underclassmen's way of saying farewell to the
Seniors. I remember the surprise I felt as a freshman
at my first step-singing when I heard the other
classes sing to my class — it put the whole year in the
right perspective— or, as a junior, receiving the
Sweet Briar ring the realization that I was a part of
the school.

Traditions also serve to bring the whole community
closer together. The warm friendly atmosphere of
the community Christmas Party, the Christmas
Bazaar, and Amherst County Day all bring out the
best in everyone they broaden our perspective by
reminding us that life is found in people not in
tests or papers.

Many traditions at Sweet Briar bring about unity
within the four classes — such as the Freshman and
Senior Shows, May Day, Intramural sports and the
Christmas Bazaar.

Finally, we remember traditions such as hemming
Senior Robes, Painting the Hitching Post, Mrs.
Pannell's Christmas Parties, the Sweet Tones
serenading us the morning of Christmas vacation;
Asses Skits: Bum Chum Inns; Banner Hanging; the
Faculty Show; Sundae Nights; Chautauqua; Big
Sister; The Happening; the Chung Mung Band; and
last but not least, Mr. Daniel's fire talk.

One finds herself looking forward to these
traditions which mark our years at Sweet Briar. The
feeling of participating in them is hard to express
it is something of ttie excitement which the student
feels when she sees the professors process into a
convocation— a feeling of Thanksgiving— a realiza-

tion and a gladness that she is part of the tradition
in carrying on the continuity of the college.
Let us pray:

Dear Lord,

We thank you for such a place as Sweet Briar.
We thank you for blessing this college and enabling
those ideals about which its founders dreamed to
have been achieved.

Watch over our school now, oh Lord; bless and
guide her daughters. Let their hearts be warm
with the flames of their early ideals, their faith
unshaken, and their principles immovable.

Grant all of these things, through Jesus Christ,
our Lord,

Amen.

Our Community Efforts

by Pam Burwell '68

Community efforts may be defined as advantages
and events sponsored or made possible by certain
segments of the community for the amusement,
education, or service of or for any member of the
community. By organizing interested people into
specific groups, the efforts of the community bring
the benefit of a unity of purpose toward a particular
goal. At Sweet Briar we are thankful for the
opportunity to expand our awareness of the world,
to enrich our own lives by using our various talents
and most of all, by being of service to others
through the various volunteer groups on our campus
which sponsor or lead particular community efforts.
Because of our size and the leadership of knowledge-
able adults to guide us, participations in our
community organizations are open to those who are
interested and qualify. For example, the Sweet Briar
Choir and the Sweet Tones are open to students who
are musically qualified. Or if a student prefers to
begin her own group the atmosphere at Sweet Briar
is congenial.

The Babcock stage is a wonderland of a mechanic-
al and creative nature for those who wish to elect
the theatre, the dance, or instrumental recital as

their effort for the good of Sweet Briar and the
outlying community which serves us.

A student may also decide to give service to
others. If this is the case, then opportunities foj"
her volunteer effort are always available. The
Y.W.C.A. conducts a tutorial program among its
other civic functions, while the Campus Chest helps
to support the foreign student fund and the agencies
that exist for our benefit or the benefit of those
connected with Sweet Briar. The Community Christ-
mas Party and Amherst County Day give us a
chance to show our appreciation to the people in our
community for their service to us, and to acknow-
ledge that we are a part of this community.

Another outlet for community efforts is a news-
paper, like the Sweet Briar News, which embodies
the advantages of the community to realize for the
individual opportunities for amusement, education
and service.

These are a few examples of various organizations
which exist for the benefit of the community— in-
cluding students, faculty, staff, and in differing
degrees those outside our gates. The students,
though, are in the privileged position, the center
force of many of these community services and
efforts. Lord Baden-Powell once said, "Look wide
and when you think you are looking wide, look
wider still." Here at Sweet Briar we are thankful
for the privilege to look wider through the oppor-
tunities for service to the community.

Our Friends Behind the Scenes

by Louisa Cahan '68

In The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran said that "when
you work with love you bind yourself to yourself,
and to one another, and to God . . . Work is love
made visible."

There is a group of people on our campus who
express love and create community in their work, in
a way that we as students are unable to experience.
They are the people whose daily occupation is
service to the college. Their service is in cooking
and serving food and washing dishes, doing laundry,
mopping floors, delivering mail, answering tele-
phones, locking doors, and more tasks than we
could name. They glorify God, as Brother Lawrence
did, in "the noise and clutter" of the kitchen.

We are grateful for the services they perform for
us, for they free us to do the work we are to do. But
more than that, we are grateful for them as persons.
We are glad to have the opportunity to know them,
and, in knowing them, to know that Jesus was right
when he said that "he who is least among you all is
the one who is great."

Sweet Briar is a community because of such
people, people whose "work is love made visible."
Community is created in the sharing of life and
work. The miracle of community is that the variety
of the life and work that we share binds us closer
together. We are grateful for the diversity of people
who make up our Sweet Briar community.

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Our Natural Environment

by El ma Louise Savage '68

I was recently reading Virginia Wooif's essay
"How Should One Read A Book." If we could
imagine ourselves set down in the middle of our
library at the beginning of our freshman year with-
out benefit of reading lists or specific assignments,
in which direction would we turn? Would we be like
the proverbial ass who starved as he looked from
haybail to haybail, not able to make up his mind?
"There may well seem to be nothing," Mrs. Woolf
says, "but a conglomeration and muddle of con-
fusion. Poems and novels, histories and memoirs,
dictionaries and bluebooks; books written in all
languages by men and women of all tempers, races,
and ages jostle each other on the shelf. And outside
the donkey brays, the women gossip at the pump,
the colts gallop across the fields. Where are we to
begin? How are we to bring order into this multi-
tudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest
pleasure from what we read?"

I am not going to speak further on books — my
subject here is the natural environment of our
campus. But I think it is especially important that
when Mrs. Woolf considered a conglomeration of
books she saw as well the "outside" of colts and
donkeys and fields making demands upon her
attention. We, of course, do not see donkeys or
women gossiping when our attention wanders from
book shelves, but we do look out on fields: green,
plowed red, or beaten grey in winter; a quiet proces-
sion of cows going over the far hilltop down to the
dairy. Or we might look up to the highest windows
in the library; glance quickly at the sky in its
turbulence of cloud and light and think: it will be a

pretty day, or it is going to snow. I remember once,
coming out of lab in Guion, discovering that the hall
was on fire with the glow of sunset: all pink and
black across the sky past the monument. Or this fall:
watching a riot of gold leaves in the blue world
outside the seminar room. Or, it seemed especially
appropriate last winter when Miss Bennett turned
from the window before beginning a lecture on
embryology to say, "What a beautiful day" — a new
world outside sparkled white and blue with fresh
snow — that life could begin again and again within
us and about us — as if somehow the oldest of
miracles could never be old.

One could talk on and on about our campus — but
beyond talk — it is something we feel. I think we
know how fortunate we are to have Mr. Edwards
whose films reveal the distinction between artists
and poets from scientists is perhaps an arbitrary
one. Each time I have seen his film on the Sweet
Briar Campus I come away with a sense of wonder:
where have I been?

We cannot practically, like Thoreau, retreat to
some idyllic woods. "I left the woods," he says at
the conclusion of Walden, "for as good a reason as
I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had
several lives to live and could not spare any more
time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and
insensibly we fall into a particular route . . ." The
purpose of our education here is not that we should
beat a worn path to any particular book shelf but
rather that we should find some sense of order that
we can "get the deepest and widest pleasure from
what we read" in the world of books, of men, and of
the "outside." We are so fortunate when nature is
quickly being dissipated by what our culture con-
dones as progress that our lives should be so rich in
the world of the outside as well as in people and
books.

They Also Serve . . .

hen you, the Alumna conducting a study of
growth and change at the College over the past ten
years, come to consider the administration of the
College, you find yourself on home ground. The
administrative organization has changed little, and
much of the personnel is the same. Of the changes,
you note that

• Ten years ago, there was no chaplain at the
College. Today, the Reverend Alexander
M. Robertson serves as Sweet Briar's
second chaplain in the decade.

• The Office of Buildings and Grounds now
has a Director of Grounds, Harold M.
Swisher, Jr., in addition to a Director of
Buildings, Lloyd R. Hoilman. Mr. Hoilman
shouldered the whole load ten years ago.

• A duplicating office and mailing room
serves the combined staff, so that individual
offices no longer have to have mimeograph
and other equipment and personnel to man
them.

• The new Office of Natural Resources is
directed by the former farm manager,
Joseph A. Gilchrist, Jr.

There are some changes in Sweet Briar's leaders.
Dean Catherine Strateman Sims and her associate,
Fritzie E. Gareis, are perhaps the first you meet.
Nancy Godwin Baldwin, '57, Director of Admission,
might be next. Paul B. Hood, Director of Develop-
ment; Jan Osinga, Farm Manager; Betty Willis
Whitehead, M.D., are others. You may remember
Carolyn C. Bates, wife of the late Arthur S. Bates,

who is now Vocational Guidance Director. Except
for these, and for the addition of secretaries in many
offices, the faces are reassuringly familiar — Presi-
dent Anne Gary Pannell; Dean of Students Dorothy
Jester; Alumnae Executive Secretary Elizabeth Bond
Wood; Book Shop Manager Helen H. McMahon,
Public Relations Director Martha von Briesen,
Recorder Jeanette Boone, Assistant to the President
and Treasurer Peter V. Daniel and his right hand
"man" Mabel Chipley.

Although the organization of the administrative
offices of the College have changed little, there
is, with College growth, a greater decentralization of
authority. This leads to more responsibility for the
offices under the President and the Dean, and to a
more efficient operation of day-to-day College
business.

What makes a college run? What makes it possible
to achieve academic excellence, beauty of surround-
ings, efficient business management, orderly records,
and all the other attributes of a functioning institu-
tion of higher learning?

At Sweet Briar, the answer to these questions is
people — people who care about the College and
work for its goals, whether in key administrative
posts or in the cutting gardens. A loyal group, their
combined years of service to Sweet Briar totals a
rather staggering number of years. For a member of
the administration to have been at Sweet Briar for
twenty years is not unusual; for a staff member or
employee to have served anywhere from twenty-five
to forty-five years is noteworthy but not amazing.

But Do Not Stand and Wait

by Nancy St. Clair Talley '56

The President

President of the College, Anne Gary Panne!!,
celebrated her seventeenth anniversary in that
position on July 1, 1967. Prior to her appointment as
president, and as professor of history (she stil!
teaches History 215, The Origins of the United
States), on July I, 1950, Mrs. Pannell was dean of
Goucher College for a year, and teacher of history at
the University of Alabama for ten years, rising from
instructor to associate professor. She received the
A.B. degree from Barnard College in 1931, with a Phi
Beta Kappa key, the Gerard Gold Medal in
American History, and a Barnard International
Fellowship. She pursued graduate studies at St.
Hugh'sCollege, Oxford, earning the D. Phil. (Oxon.)
in 1935. Her background and her talents have enabled
her to combine a career as administrator and teacher
with great insight and imagination, a president who
knows what it's like to be on the faculty. She
remembers her student days, too, and retains from
them a sympathy for students. A wife and mother
(her husband, Henry Clifton Pannell, was superin-
tendent of schools in Montgomery, Alabama, before
his untimely death; one of her sons is a lawyer, the
other working toward the Ph.D. degree) as well as a
scholar, she has a deep understanding for the goals
of education for women, and of the place of women
in the world of affairs and in the world of ideas.

She has received honorary degrees from the

Anne Gary Pannell

Catherine S. Sims

University of Alabama (LL.D., 1952); the Women's
College of the University of North Carolina (LL.D.,
1960); Western Reserve University (Litt.D., 1963)
and the University of Chattanooga (Doctor of
Humane Letters, 1963). Last year the French
government named her Commandeur de I'Ordre des
Palmes Academiques. But she does not live in an
ivied old tower of academe, secluded from the
world, nor is this her aim for graduates of Sweet
Briar. She is convinced that women have a calling
to serve the community. Often her own service finds
her up before dawn to board a bus or plane for a
tour that will keep her awake until the wee
hours — an associate claims Mrs. Pannell survives
because she can sleep anywhere, any time, within
seconds, when nothing demands her attention. She is
currently a Senator-at-large of the United Chapters
of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the Commission on
Students and Faculty forthe Association of American
Colleges, a member of the Advisory Council for the
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (it
selects Marshall scholars), a member of the Board
of Visitors of the Woman's College of Duke
University, a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges and of Chatham Hall School,
and a director of the Church Society for College
Work. She begins this year a term as president of the
American Association of University Women.

Her commitments have taken her to conferences
in France, Norway and Germany as a member of
small groups meeting with similar European groups,
and to Asia and later and more specifically, India. In
India she was one of four educational administrators
who in 1963 arranged for the establishment of the
U.S.- India Women's College Faculty Exchange
Program. She has found, at the same time, leisure
to serve as chairman of the Amherst County Health
and Welfare Council. She has leisure, too, for
voracious reading: countless books in the Mary
Helen Cochran Library bear her name on the
check-out card.

Mrs. Pannell had been president of Sweet Briar
for fifteen years when her friend from Barnard days.
Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, joined her at the
College to become dean, succeeding Dean Mary J.
Pearl, who had been at the College for thirty-seven
years and Dean of the College for fifteen years. Dean
Sims brings to her position the same strong academic
background, the same commitment to service, the
same breadth of interests that Mrs. Pannell brings
to hers. The Dean began her teaching career in 1937
at the Woman's College of the University of North
Carolina, and from 1939 until she came to Sweet
Briar in August, 1965, she taught history and political
science at Agnes Scott College. At Barnard, she was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with
honors in history in 1934. She spent a year at the
Institute of Historical Research at the University of
London, and by 1937 had earned the M.A. and the
Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

Mrs. Sims' years at Agnes Scott were not spent in
academic seclusion. Twice she was named Woman
of the Year in nearby Atlanta, for Education in
1946 and for Civic Service in 1958. In 1960 she took
a three-year leave of absence from Agnes Scott to

become vice-president and dean of the American
College for Girls in Istanbul. To her duties in the
world community, the local community, and the
College, Dean Sims brings a warmth of personality
and an integrity that her associates— and the
students— sense immediately. The light touch and
the unassuming manner with which she approaches
a difficult job, fraught with hard work and often
long hours, do not conceal the earnestness of purpose
with which she approaches that job. Dean Sims is
married to Roff Sims, a retired Atlanta banker, a
man of charm and an expert tennis player.

Thirteen years Assistant to the President and
Treasurer, Peter V. Daniel still has the manner of
the University of Virginia student he once was.
Recent visitors to the College know his enthusiasm
for the additions to Sweet Briar's plant that have
taken shape during his years at the College. Alumnae
who happen to have been undergraduates during the
water shortage of the fifties remember his red-faced
statement of the new limited-bathing regulation— it
was somewhat like having your beau tell you you
could take only three showers a week!

A degree in economics from the University of
Virginia, following service with the Army Air Force
during World War II, led Mr. Daniel to a career in
business, first with the Chase National Bank in
New York and then with the State Planters Bank in
Richmond, which he left to come to Sweet Briar in
1955. Both he and his wife, who have two sons, are
active in community affairs. He is a vestryman of
Ascension Episcopal Church in Amherst, a director
of the Advisory Board of the Fidelity National Bank
in Lynchburg, and a trustee of Virginia Episcopal
School and of St. Paul's College. He is on the
executive committee of the Eastern Association of
College and University Business Officers.

Mr. Daniel, who delights to quote figures, reminds
one that when he joined the staff in 1955 the total
resources of the College were $3,600,000 and they
are now over $14,000,000.

As chief financial officer of the College his
responsibilities include the non-academic and
business operation of the College — having direct
responsibility for control of the annual budget which
is now $2,700,000.

He has had a major role in the planning and
financing the new road system and the five major
buildings built since he came to Sweet Briar. An idea
of the scope of his duties may be given by the
imposing list of committees on which he serves — Fees,
Book Shop, Junior Year in France, Master Plan,
Public Relations, Lectures, Concerts, Boxwood Inn,
Housing, Campus Development, and Vacations and
Sick Benefits.

Four members of the administration are alumnae
of the College. They are Jeanette Boone '27, Record-
er, Nancy Godwin Baldwin '57, Director of Admis-
sion, Martha von Briesen '31, Director of Public
Relations, and Elizabeth Bond Wood '34, Executive
Secretary of the Alumnae Association. Miss Boone,
an honor graduate, joined the staff as assistant in
the Registrar's Office thirty-six years ago. Three
years later, in 1934, she became Acting Registrar,
and, from 1935 to 1947, Assistant Registrar. In 1947

Peter V. Duid

Jeanette Boone

Kim Waters, Anne-Bnice Boxley,
and Nancy Godwin Baldwin

Martha ran Briesen

when the Registrar's Office was replaced by the
Office of Admission and the Office of the Recorder,
Miss Boone was named Recorder. She has been
president, twice, of the Virginia Association of
Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers, and
secretary-treasurer of the Southern Association of
College and University Registrars. Miss Boone's
quietness and confidence, even following mid-year
examinations, have stood her in good stead as she
watched the number of students more than double
and her office convert to computers.

Mrs. Baldwin joined the college staff as Assistant
to the Director of Admission in 1958, following a
year of drama study at Bowling Green State Univer-
sity in Ohio. There, as graduate assistant, she taught
classes in speech and play directing, and supervised
the Speech Instructional Center. At Sweet Briar, she
became Assistant Director of Admission, in 1962, and
was Acting Director of Admission during 1963-1964.
She was appointed Director of Admission in 1966.

Mrs. Baldwin met her husband, Thomas L.
Baldwin, when both worked with the Lynchburg
Little Theatre. Her interest in the theatre stems from
student days, when she majored in drama, wrote
"Lord Jeffrey's County," a pageant produced for
Amherst County's bicentennial celebration, and
acted in many productions of Paint and Patches.
During the summers she worked with theatres in
Richmond and in Huron, Ohio. Mrs. Baldwin's
background as an alumna is valuable in her work as
Director of Admission. So, too, are her limitless
energy and her cheerful manner when there seems to
be too much to do. In nine years in the Admission
Office, she has seen space needs grow and the office
move to spacious quarters on the second floor of
Fletcher, where prospective students may be properly
welcomed either in a long drawing room or on a
sunny balcony. She has also seen the number of
applicants swell to more than nine hundred qualified
prospective — or hopeful — students from whom must
be chosen a freshman class of a "mere" two hundred
and fifty.

Assisting Mrs. Baldwin in the Admission Office
are two other alumnae, Anne Bruce Boxley '62, and
Kim Waters '67. Both on the campus and in travels
throughout the country, they are well-qualified to
interpret Sweet Briar to the sort of student that the
College seeks.

As an alumna, Martha von Briesen, too, has a fine
advantage in her work as Director of Public
Relations. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, with the
A.M. degree from Radcliffe College (1933), Miss
von Briesen has been telling the public about the
College since assuming her present position in 1942.
During twenty-five years she has provided the press
with copy that scarcely ever is blue-penciled, so fine a
reputation does she have with the editors whom she
supplies. She has also written and supervised the
publication of a myriad institution publications
which often win awards at the annual meeting of the
American College Public Relations Association, for
which organization she has served on the Board of
Directors. Her strawberry-blonde hair and tweedy
good looks hover in the background of all campus
functions, for she is either snapping a Leica or

Elizabeth Bond Wood

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weilding a Graflex when she is not officiating. Her
files, which she generously opens for other campus
offices to use, are rich in pictures of Sweet Briar and
those who have been associated with it through the
years.

Elizabeth Bond Wood, who graduated with
honors, begins this fall her thirteenth year as Execu-
tive Secretary of the Alumnae Association. Prior to
that she was a Lynchburg housewife, two of whose
children (the third is a boy) are alumnae of the
College — Lisa Wood Franklin, '63, and Katie Wood
Clarke, '65. But she was a housewife with a difference,
one of the first to return to classes and to hold a job
(most successfully, as a broker with Scott, Horner
and Mason). She and her husband, Ernest M . Wood,
Jr., moved to Garden Cottage in 1955. Since then,
"Jackie" has piloted the Alumnae Association to an
enviable record of achievement in fund raising, in
communication, and in the winning of awards
through the American Alumni Council. An Alabam-
ian, Mrs. Wood brings a Southerner's light touch to
her duties, concealing, from all but those who work
closely with her, a tenacity of purpose, a quick mind
and quicker imagination, and enormous endurance,
but concealing from none her joie de vivre.

A newer member of the administrative staff is
Paul B. Hood, Director of Development at the
College since December, 1963. In the same position
at Chatham Hall for three years prior to his appoint-
ment, he supervised a successful $1,300,000 capital
fund campaign there. Before that, he was an associate
with a family insurance agency in Washington,
Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Pennsylvania
State University in 1956. Overseeing Sweet Briar's
continuing program of fund-raising, including
cooperation with alumnae in the annual Alumnae
Fund, promotion of the Parents Fund, and direction
of Campus Development activities, Paul Hood has
in only four years seen the campus changed by the
Memorial Chapel, the Connie Guion Science Build-
ing, a new road system, and the Charles A. Dana
wing of the library.

It is this last addition that gives so much pleasure
to Miss H. Tyler Gemmell, who for twenty years as
Librarian at the College has dreamed of such an
accomplishment. A graduate of Randolph-Macon
Woman's College, with the B.S. and M.S. degrees
from the Columbia University Library School, Miss
Gemmell held positions in the libraries of Randolph-
Macon, Vassar College, and New Jersey College for
Women, before heading the library staff at Sweet
Briar. She was Fulbright Lecturer at University
College in Mandalay, Burma, during 1955-1956, and
returned to Asia ten years later, as visiting American
Lecturer on the U.S.- India Women's College
Exchange Program during 1966-1967. For the first
five months of this latest tour she taught in a post-
graduate Library Science Program at Isabella
Thoburn College in Luchow, India. For the latter
half of her term of service she acted as library
consultant to other women's colleges in Bangalore,
Delhi, Hyderbad, and Madras. She has returned
to enjoy the spacious stacks and offices that the
Dana wing of Mary Helen Cochran Library affords.

Still another alumna in an administrative position

is Helen McMahon '23, who shares Miss GemmeH's
passion for books. "Helen Mac" spends this passion
at the College Book Shop, where many a student has
laid the foundations for a permanent library of her
own. The Book Shop's new building, to which it
moved in 1961, is evidence of the success of twenty-
nine years' dedication on Miss McMahon's part.
Something of her ability at organizing and at
hospitality show forth in the new Book Shop, and
it is a popular campus meeting place. Part of this, and
of the Book Shop's success is due to Miss
McMahon's assistant, Gertrude Prior, '29.

Perhaps the member of the administration most in
touch with the students, their everyday habits and
customs, is Dorothy Jester, Dean of Students at the
College since 1955. She and her staff are responsible
for all non-academic aspects of student life, a large
order that includes room assignments, social plans,
self-help, overnight absences, and counseling on
every level — one alumna remembers that Miss Jester
advised whether or not to wear a hat at a job
interview. Miss Jester has been associated with Sweet
Briar except for one year, since 1947. A graduate of
Agnes Scott College, she was secretary, then assistant,
to the Dean of Students at Randolph-Macon
Woman's College before coming to Sweet Briar as
Assistant in the Office of the Dean in 1947. She was
named Acting Director of Admission for 1953-1954.
Although she left Sweet Briar at the end of that year
to become Assistant Dean of Women at the College
of William and Mary, Sweet Briar persuaded her to
return as its first Dean of Students in 1955. Miss
Jester's prematurely gray hair, perpetually girlish
figure, and ever-present smile have been a part of the
lives of many generations of Sweet Briar students.
She occupies an office now on the first floor of Dew
dormitory, coping with social changes that have
brought mini skirts, maxi hair, and endless conver-
sation about the "New Morality."

For ten years Administrative Assistant and
Executive Secretary to President Pannell, Hilda G.
Hite came to Sweet Briar from the Educational
Testing Service in Princeton, where she was head of
the Correspondence Section of Test Administration.
Mrs. Hite, a student of music and of German, had
formerly been a teaching fellow in German at the
Columbia University of Rochester, and research
assistant in German history for a member of the
Institute for Advance Study at Princeton. A graduate
of the University of Rochester and the Eastman
School of Music, with a music major and a minor in
German literature, Mrs. Hite spent three years,
1936-1939, studying musicology, German literature
and art history at the University of Munich and the
Munich Academy of Music. It was not until last
summer that she returned to Europe, primarily for
the wedding of her daughter Aprille Hite, Sweet
Briar '64, a London systems programmer, to David
Gardener, a law student at the University of London.
As Mrs. Pannell's administrative assistant, Mrs.
Hite would seem to need three heads as liaison
between the President and the faculty, staff, and, in
some instances, the Board. As director of the Presi-
dent's Office she is involved in virtually every facet
of the College as it concerns the President.

Dorothy Jester

Hilda G. Hite

Fritzie E. Carets

Betty W illis Whitehead

Assistants or associates in three other offices are
involved in the work of the administration in the
same way. Miss Fritzie E. Gareis is Associate Dean;
Mrs. Elizabeth Hume Carr is Assistant Dean of
Students, and Miss Mabel Chipley is Assistant
Treasurer. A graduate of Philips Secretarial College,
Miss Chipley came to Sweet Briar in 1937 as
Assistant to the Treasurer. She has held her present
position for twenty years. Compared with her
service, Mrs. Carr and Miss Gareis are newcomers.
A graduate of Mary Baldwin College, Mrs. Carr was
Assistant to the Dean of Students there from 1960 to

1963, when she assumed her duties at Sweet Briar.
She had taught math and Latin in high school in
Boyce and Berryville, Virginia, and in the upper
school at the Powhatan Country Day School in
Boyce, before going to Mary Baldwin. She was no
stranger to Sweet Briar — her daughter, Suzanne
Carr Brown, was a member of the Class of 1961.

Miss Gareis began her duties at Sweet Briar a year
ago. She was Dean of Students during 1965-1966 at
Clarion State College in Pennsylvania, and for three
years before that was Dean of Students at the
American College for Girls in Istanbul, Turkey. She
holds the B.S. degree from Boston University and
M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
During World War II she was an officer in the
SPARS, and she is a lieutenant commander in the
reserves.

Mrs. Carolyn Collier Bates, Director of Vocation-
al Guidance, aids and counsels students in their
plans for summer work and for part-time college
employment. She maintains records of employment
following graduation, and counsels seniors looking
for jobs. The wife of the late Dr. Arthur S. Bates,
beloved Professor of French at the College, Mrs.
Bates has seen something of an employment revolu-
tion among alumnae at Sweet Briar, for during the
last few years a higher percentage of graduates work
or go on to further study so that now the percentage
approaches a hundred. Mrs. Bates herself, a cum
laude graduate of Mississippi State College for
Women who holds the M.A. from the University of
Illinois, has been instructor in English at Shenandoah
College, the University of Wyoming, Randolph-
Macon Woman's College, and Sweet Briar. At Sweet
Briar, too, she has been a part-time interviewer in
the Office of Admission.

Betty Willis Whitehead, M.D., College Physician
and Professor of Health Education since July 1,

1964, combined a career in medicine with marriage
and a family for more than twenty years. A graduate
of Agnes Scott College (1937), she received her
M.D. at the University of Virginia in I94I. That
same year she married Dr. Philip Cary Whitehead,
but continued with internships at the Gallinger
Municipal Hospital in Washington and Bellvue
Hospital in New York, where she was also assistant
resident. She was resident in pediatrics at the
University of Virginia Hospital, and chief resident
in the Children's Medical Service at Beilevue. She
was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics
in 1951. She and her husband lived in Norfolk,
Charlottesville, and Chatham, had five children,
and, from 1952 to 1962, maintained the Whitehead-

Ruth Kinder

Harold M. Swisher, Jr.

Joseph A. Gilchrist, Jr.

Willis Clinic in Chatham. In 1962 the Whiteheads
moved to Alaska, to become the only doctors in the
small community of Seldovia. After her husband's
fatal accident in 1963, Dr. Whitehead carried on the
work alone until the beginning of the academic
year, when she became school physician for Chatham
Hall. At Sweet Briar, Dr. Whitehead's modest
manner and rare sympathy have earned her the
love and respect of her patients.

These administrative officers, their assistants, and
their secretaries, make up a working group of over
fifty. But it requires more to operate an institution
that is also a community. Miss Ruth M. Kinder,
Director of Refectories for five years, has a staff of
sixty, in addition to student waitresses. Lloyd
Hoilman, Director of Buildings, for twenty years, has
a staff of eighty-seven. Harold M. Swisher, Jr.,
Director of Grounds since 1965, has a crew of
eleven. Miss Virginia Kitchen, Director of the Halls
of Residence since 1965, has a staff of forty. Mr. Jan
Osinga manages the farm and runs the dairy with five
assistants.

Lloyd Hoilman's department is responsible for
buildings, utilities, the laundry; for purchasing,
delivering freight and express, and delivering the
laundry; for pay rolls. It serves also as a clearing
house for telephone service and bills, and makes
housing available for faculty and staff. Serving with
Mr. Hoilman, who holds the B.S. and M.S. degrees
in Architectural Engineering from V.P.I., are nine
groundsmen, two gardeners, a caretaker for the
playing fields, sixteen janitors and maids, four
electricians and plumbers, four filter plant operators,
four firemen, one truck driver, five carpenters, and
twenty-six laundry employees. Mr. Hoilman's assist-
ant, Carroll Henson, who has specific charge of
freight and express and supervises the janitors, has
been with the College for thirty-three years. His
wife runs the laundry. Others have served impressive
terms: E.H. Shanks, a carpenter, forty-six years;
Homer Banton, chief plumber, forty years, and P.M.
Cochran, chief engineer, thirty-four years.

Harold M. Swisher, Jr., holds the B.S. degree in
ornamental horticulture from V.P.I., and has the
rare privilege of putting his knowledge to work on
a plant such as Sweet Briar's. His department, a
division of the old Department of Buildings and
Grounds, maintains the grounds, walks, and roads,
takes charge of the trucking, the security, the remov-
al of leaves in fall and snow in winter. Mr. Swisher
is purchasing agent for the College.

A leading figure of long-standing on the physical
plant of the College is Joseph A. Gilchrist, Jr. Form-
erly manager of the farm, he is now Manager of the
Office of Natural Development, seeing to it that the
remarkable resources that are Sweet Briar's are
maintained, conserved, and put to good use. It is
this, of course, that is the concern of the whole
administrative organization of the College. Whether
those resources be the land, the academic potential,
the student health and welfare, or any one of Sweet
Briar's many "resources," these men and women
dedicate themselves to their development with a
loyalty that is a large component of the Spirit of
Sweet Briar.

We Shall Not See
Their Like Again

X unds in memory of three beloved professors
emeriti at Sweet Briar College have been started
following their deaths. Dr. Arthur S. Bates, pro-
fessor emeritus of French and a member of the Col-
lege faculty from 1948 to 1965, died May 26, 1967,
in Lynchburg General Hospital. Miss Jessie Mel-
ville Fraser, professor emeritus of history and a
member of the faculty from 1926 to 1953, died
September 3, 1967, at the University of Virginia
Hospital in Charlottesville. Miss Virginia Randall
McLaws, Director of Art emeritus and faculty
member from 1908 to 1938, died August II in Sa-
vannah, Georgia.

The Arthur S. Bates Fund was initiated by his
colleagues and friends at Sweet Briar.

The Jessie Melville Fraser Fund, founded by a
group of former students of Miss Fraser, will oper-
ate as an endowed fund for the support of faculty
salaries in history. Its goal is $350,000. The Vir-
ginia McLaws Art Purchase Fund is intended for
the purchase of a painting for the College collection.

A member of the faculty at Sweet Briar for seven-
teen years, until illness forced his early retire-
ment. Dr. Bates was fifty-eight. He was born in
Cortland, N.Y., was graduated from Hamilton
College, and earned the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Cornell. He studied, too, in France and in
Mexico, beginning his teaching career in Cortland
and continuing it at Cornell and at the University
of Wyoming before coming to Sweet Briar.

Dr. Bates's doctoral dissertation, a linguistic
study of an unpublished manuscript by a fifteenth
century French poet found in the Cornell library,
was published, in amplified form, by the University
of Michigan Press in 1958. For his achievement in
cultural relations between this country and France,
the French government last year conferred upon Dr.
Bates the rank and decoration of Chevalier de V
Ordre des Palmes Academiques. The order was
established by Napoleon I to recognize literary and
other cultural endeavors.

Dr. Bates was a communications officer with
the OSS for three years during World War II. He
remained active in the Army Reserve and retired
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. An excellent
shot, he was a member of the National Rifle Club
and a former president of the Lynchburg Rifle and
Pistol Club. He was among the establishers of Izaak
Walton Park in Amherst. At another of his hobbies,
photography, he excelled also, turning in recent years
to close photographic studies of birds and insects.

He was as enthusiastic about his academic disci-
pline as he was about his hobbies. The study of
Proust engaged him, and he enjoyed conversing on
the subject with those who had read the work. He
was chairman of the Romance Languages Depart-
ment for several years. He served on the Junior Year
in France Committee, on the admission, scholar-
ship and executive committees, and was a member
of College Council.

His steel gray hair, impeccable dress and manners,
and military bearing hid, but barely, a dry class-
room wit and a warmth of understanding for his
students. His wife, Mrs. Carolyn Collier Bates,
remains at Sweet Briar as head of the Office of
Vocational Guidance, and his daughter, Victoria,
is a student at Amherst County High School.

iss Fraser, who would have been eighty this
fall, came to Sweet Briar in 1926 as associate pro-
fessor of history and assistant to the dean. She
held the latter position for four years; the former,
for twenty-seven years, by which time she was pro-
fessor of history and chairman of the Department
of History. She spent her last years in Charlottes-
ville, her research and writing centering chiefly
upon Arthur Lee, whose letters and journals she
was editing.

Born in Walterboro, South Carolina, Miss Fraser
was graduated from the Columbia College in South
Carolina. After teaching in South Carolina, North
Carolina and Virginia high schools, she took the
master's degree in English at the University of
South Carolina. Just before coming to Sweet Briar
she earned a second master's degree at Columbia
University in New York. American history became
her specialty, and she continued studying, both
at Columbia and at the University of Virginia, as
her teaching duties permitted.

For almost twenty-five years Miss Fraser was
chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Book
Shop. During that time her vision and hard work
were in great measure responsible for the Book
Shop Building with faculty apartments upstairs,
constructed in the 1920's and today housing the
Alumnae Association. She saw, too, the establish-
ment of Book Shop scholarships and of a student
loan fund. Miss Fraser was adviser for the Briar
Patch, and was chairman of the program for the
fiftieth anniversary of Charter Day in 1951.

Miss Fraser combined the qualities of a Southern
lady and a scholar to such an extent that she could
wear a hat to deliver her lectures without detract-
ing from their academic impact. She loved learning,
and through her example taught her students, many
of whom kept in touch with her to her death, the
integrity of scholarship. Her keen insight into hu-
man nature, her common sense, her lively wit, com-
bined to make her a much-sought counselor.

iss McLaws was one of the first faculty
members of the College, and taught courses in the
history of art and in painting and drawing at
Sweet Briar for thirty years. During the early years
of the College, she was the Orientation Committee,
welcoming each student. She served on many cam-
pus committees, and was an honorary member of
the Class of 1912.

Born in Savannah, Miss McLaws studied art at
the Charcoal Club in Baltimore, and at the School
of Fine and Applied Art in New York. She spent a
summer in Paris as a pupil of Henri Caro-Delvaille,
and many summers in art schools in this country.

Her teaching career began in Savannah before the
turn of the century, and early in the century she
taught drawing at the Randolph-Harrison School in
Baltimore and design at the New York School of
Fine and Applied Arts, where she was also assis-
tant to the director. Besides at the College and in
local shows, her paintings were exhibited at the

Delgado Museum, New Orleans, and in exhibits
sponsored by the Washington, Georgia and South-
ern Art Association. She was a member of the
Georgia and Southern Art Associations, and of the
American Federation of Arts. She left paintings in
the Sweet Briar collection.

Miss McLaws spent her last years in Savannah
with a cousin. Miss Mary E. King, and went to
Saluda, North Carolina, in the summers. Prior to
that, she lived with her brother-in-law and sister,
the late Gen. and Mrs. E. P. King, in the Philippine
Islands and Washington, and later in Atlanta, Sa-
vannah and Sea Island. At the time of her death,
as the result of a fall, she was in her late nineties.

The Sweet Briar College
Alumnae Award

On the recommendation of the Executive Board
of the Alumnae Association, President Pannell has
estabhshed

The Sweet Briar College Alumnae Award
in Honor of the Class of 1910

The Award is to be given to graduate alumnae
who have been out of college for at least 15 years
in recognition of outstanding service to the College
in a volunteer capacity. Not more than three awards
may be made in any year. The award will be pre-
sented by the President of the College, preferably,
though not necessarily, at Commencement. The first
award will be made at Commencement 1968.

Nominations are invited from any member of the
Sweet Briar community: alumna, faculty, admin-
istration staff. Director or Overseer, student. They
should be sent to the Committee on the Alumnae
Award, c/o the Alumnae Association, Sweet Briar
College.

President Pannell has appointed the persons
listed below to serve on the Committee for the
current year. They await your nominations with
deep interest.

Mrs. Richard H. Balch

Miss Laura T. Buckham

Mrs. Oscar W. Burnett

Mrs. Remy Lemaire, Chairman

Mrs. H. Donald Schwaab

Dean Catherine S. Sims, ex-officio

Mrs. Elizabeth Bond Wood, ex-officio

The College is planning a short course in
Ornithology and Ecology, June 17-22, 1968. As
now envisioned the course will include lecture,
laboratory, field trip, and motion picture sessions,
as well as some afternoon free time for swimming
or other recreation. The instructor and course
leader will be Ernest P. Edwards, Professor in the
Biology Department, and specialist in ornithology,
field biology and ecology. The course will not be
given for credit, but will be presented on a reason-
ably sophisticated level. Sweet Briar alumnae will
be given first choice, as enrollment will be limited
to 12 students. Rooms and meals will be provided
on campus at a moderate cost. Full details will be
in the spring issue of the Alumnae Magazine, but
we would like those of you who are interested to
write to the Alumnae Office prior to that time.

Kary Helen Co3hran Library
S»eet briar, Va. 24395

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Alumnae Magazine

Spring 1968

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Alumnae Magazine Spring 1968

Editor: Elizabeth Bond Wood '34
Associate Editor: Nancy St. Clair Talley '56
Class Notes Editor: Mary Vaiighan Blackwell

Volume 38, No. 2

Issued four times tjearhj: Fall, Winter, Spring and
Summer bij Sweet Briar College. Second class
postage paid at Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595.

contents

The First Step

by Margaret Clapp

The Sweet Briar Facts Are . . .

The Plain Fact Is . . .

A special report by Editorial Projects for Education

Briar Patches

Class Notes

Ethel Ramage 1896 - 1967

by Byrd Stone '56

The First Step

and Where It Might Lead

by Margaret Clapp

'o you know the poem, The First Step, by C.
P. Cavafy? He is a modem Greek poet.

One could comment on this poem from many
views. I would point out only two things here. First,
the poem is a witness to the importance of process.
The youth worked two years to achieve one poem.
This is his great glory; he worked and he worked
purposefully. To write his poem he did what had
to come first: he became a citizen of the city of
ideas. Truly this is not little — this first step.

It is easier to maintain
momentum than to get
started — easier for the baby
to become steady on his
feet than to get on them in
the first place; for the child
to expand his vocabulary
than to utter his first words;
for the young swimmer to
learn a variety of dives than
to plunge ofl^ the high
board for the first time; for
the upperclassman to move
easily through her courses
than for the freshman
facing the unknown; for
the poet to write a second
idyll after having become
acquainted with the City
of Ideas and the techniques
of his work. First steps de-
serve special honor, be-
cause each start in a new
type of worthwhile self -use
is not easy; success in it is
truly great glory So I
would honor all those
among you who have made
a start in developing habits
this year — developing pro-
cesses in self - use through
which you are finding satis-
factions, or at least finding some greater ease in hv-
ing with yourself combined with some awareness
of new powers emerging.

What your habits and processes should be I can-
not say. Once years ago I found myself praising as
all-important steady, unrelenting, day by day effort,
and afterward I felt a fraud. I have never talked
that way again. I was preaching what I did not
practice. I work hard, by choice, much of the time.
But the pattern for me is to work in great gulps

THE FIRST STEP
By C. P. Cavafy

The young poet Eumenes

complained one day to Theocritus:

"I have been writing for two years now

and I have done only one idyll.

It is my only finished work.

Alas, it is steep, I see it,

the stairway of Poetry is so steep;

and from the first step where now I stand,

poor me, I shall never ascend."

"These words," Theocritus said,

"are unbecoming and blasphemous.

And if you are on the first step,

you ought to be proud and pleased.

Coming as far as this is not little;

what you have achieved is great glory.

For even this first step

is far distant from the common herd.

To set your foot upon this step

you must rightfully be a citizen

of the city of ideas.

And in that city it is hard

and rare to be naturalized.

In her market place you find Lawmakers

whom no adventurer can dupe.

Coming as far as this is not little;

what you have achieved is great glory."

and then to do absolutely nothing, and I do pro-
duce more when confronted by deadlines. My sug-
gestion to you is that you use these college years
partly to try out various ways of doing, then reflect
in order to discover the patterns which produce
most for you. Make those patterns habitual, so long
as your ways do not infringe on others' rights, with-
out worrying whether you are conforming to some-
one else's chosen way of doing. But whatever you
do, get yourself some abiding habits. Without them
— if you act only on your
friend's initiative and prods,
or your teachers', or your
parents', or if you laze along
trusting to your wits — you
might as well retire on
graduation day. What one
says one wishes for one's
hfe does not matter much.
What one will do depends
on what one makes habit-
ual. Do you know William
James' remark? "Could the
young but realize how soon
they will become mere
walking bundles of habits,
they would give more heed
to their conduct while in
the plastic state. We are
spinning our own fates,
good or evil, and never to
be undone." I predict that
the later Honors will be-
long to those of you who
are evolving habits of do-
ing, of learning, of creat-
ing, of sharing which can
be as building blocks to a
lasting edifice. The other
point in Cavafy 's poem
which I would emphasize
is that neither young nor
old poet is content to stop with the first step. Both
assume that there should be more steps. Else they
would not have conversed.

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id now, what of you? Whither? What next
after college? How? Where? Any practical glance
at this huge question of Whither shows that you do
not and cannot know what lies ahead. Most of you
cannot say exactly what you would like, except

in large generalizations. A few of you with a
special talent or a long-held special goal can define
rather clearly, and to the envy of the rest of us, the
steps you hope to take. For the majority of us the
goals are always rather amorphous, as most college
seniors will dourly agree. This holds for young men
and women alike, but the degree of difficulty in pin-
pointing what next is, I think, greater in this par-
ticular century for women than for men.

I hope you do not waste time weeping because
of this, or, as Walt Whitman puts it ( I quote from
inaccurate memory), lie awake at night whining
about your condition. It doesn't help. Nor does the
recent substitute of LSD. Nor is your condition so
very bad. Consider your predecessors among Amer-
ican women a century or more ago who had none
of these difficulties of choosing among vast num-
bers of alternatives, because they had few alterna-
tives. What do you prefer: freedom and its pains —
those moments of feeling as a stranger and afraid
because so much is left up to you to decide — or re-
stricted freedom, that is, few options?

The zestful, special fact for young college-edu-
cated Americans, regardless of sex or color it seems
to me (though we all know that the way is harder
for women and Negroes as yet) despite war abroad
and dissensions at home, is that educated youth
here can foresee a chance to use much of their lives
in ways they freely choose, and they can choose
from a legion of opportunities. Not for you, in this
period, the jobless plight of the educated Ameri-
can of the early 1930's, or of countless educated
people today in less developed countries who find
no market for their skills because their countries
cannot yet find use for a large white-collar or man-
agerial or professional class. There is greater free-
dom in America than in most places today. There is
greater freedom for you women in this century
than ever before in recorded history anywhere, for
what is freedom except the existence of many
choices and the option to select among them?

T T oil

omen have a more complicated task in ex-
ercising their freedom, as you know. Almost all
yoimg people look forward to marriage and parent-
hood, but rarely does this present to men a conflict
of interest with a defined career outside the home.
Most young women, not knowing when or where
the home demands will rest on them, have to plan
very flexibly. So they ought to sort out early where
their values center, ought to start thinking early
of the long future ahead of them and of the variety
of possibilities in store for them, ought to teach
themselves, if their elders have failed to teach
them, that exercising freedom — that is, making a
choice — always involves giving up this in order to
have that. The "all this and heaven too" approach
to life had better be left to the escape novels, and
the sooner one comes to terms with that, the better.
I confess to feeling pity for numbers of young
women I have known whose goals at age twenty or

twenty-two are still uninformed by realism — who
say, in efi^ect: I wish to join the Foreign Service
and rise to a policy-making level in two or three
years — I'm willing to work hard. The facts are that
I want a career and I also want to have three chil-
dren while I am still young. My fiance thinks a
mother ought to be home with her children in their
early years. I agree with him," she concludes and
asks: "Don't you?" Now, the latter — caring for the
children — is laudable, but Heaven help the Foreign
Service or the business or profession whose policy
these young women make on a short-order basis.

One other illustration of unrealism should be
enough. Consider a really splendid young woman
on a faculty, lively, sound, interested in her subject
and her students, married, giving admirable back-
ing to her husband and creating a loving, alive
home for her children. One day she arrives at the
President's Office. She is deeply troubled. What's
the matter with her? She has been an instructor a
long time and now she is being offered a lecture-
ship, while a man in her department, her same age,
is being made a full professor unusually early. She
is glad for him; he deserves it; there is no jealousy
in her. But where has she failed?

Obviously she has not failed. She is being su-
perbly successful in achieving a happy, worthwhile
life for herself and others. The only possible failure
on her part was failure years ago to recognize that
seven hours a week of reading nursery rhymes is
not the same as seven hours of reading learned
journals, and that being home by 3 p. m. to greet
the children on return from school is not the same
as being in the fibrary doing research. She was not
in a position at this stage to be adding to her
scholarly capital. She was still a potential scholar,
while her male colleague, fully as effective in the
daily work, had become a recognized scholar.
When, belatedly, she examined the law of conse-
quences and faced the fact that different efforts
have different outcomes, she relaxed. After, all, she
was having the life she wished, and it was a good
one. Yet she need never have had the distress of
that self-doubt if she had come to terms with the
facts of life back in her college days.

'eniors sometimes become over-anxious lest they
make a mistake in selecting their first job. It is not
easy to know in advance what is the right job to
take, especially when for the first time one is mov-
ing out of a clearly structured situation. Now, what
if a senior does pick the wrong work for her? It is
not so terrible to make a mistake; it may even be a
benefit if one learns more about oneself and the
world from it. Of course it is good to be interested
and happy on one's first position. But if one is not,
one can always try another route. I have faith in
the old saying: One door closes; another opens.
However, the picture which that presents to me is
of those modern automatic doors, the sort that do
open easily, but not for the person who stands still,

bewailing his trapped fate, only for the person who
is in process, on the move and reaching outward.

If you should try something and find it is not for
you, move on. But do not move until you can go
without breaking a contract. This is ever so impor-
tant for women. Let me make the point by a story.
I, as an employer, once had a young woman tell me
she was leaving within two weeks. She recognized
that it would not be possible to replace her, that
the students in her classes would suffer markedly,
and she sincerely regretted this. Her problem? A
young man whose company was suddenly moving
him to another city at a delicate time in their per-
sonal relationship. She felt she had to stay in full
sight. I could sympathize with her. As an employer
[ also heard myself say: "This will make me think
twice before appointing another woman." Later I
remembered a man who had left at the wrong time
and in the wrong way a few years before. In that
case it had never crossed my mind to say "This
will make me think twice before appointing another
man," In short, tliere is in many of us, still, a ves-
tigial doubt about the reliability of woman on the
job. If not for your sake, then for the women who
come after you, honor seriously any job commit-
ments you make.

turn now to some general considerations.
People's roles do change in the five, six, seven dec-
ades which most of them have after graduating
from college. If you think now that you will not
wish to marry or that you will wish a combinatioii
of marriage and work outside the home, pick your-
self a career as your Ithaca — your large goal — and
if you change your mind en route and give up that
goal, you will be the richer for the striving. Only,
please, if you take advanced professional training,
do feel obligated to repay society for its gift to you
before you turn aside.

If you think that in due course you will wish to
make marriage your main career, don't fail to think
carefully about that vocation and how to prepare
for it. Ask yourself if you are building the charac-
ter, the integrity, the interests, and compassion that
will make you an asset as a wife and the kind of
mother that you think a child should have. Such
thoughts may be worth more of your attention than
spending much time trying to decide whether to
look for your first job in Washington or New Or-
leans.

The short-term job has value for you, I hasten to
add. Work-experience, even though you have no
desire for a long-term career outside the home, is
useful to you and society. Indeed, if your circum-
stances make it right for you not to marry until you
have held a job for at least a year, you are lucky
for at least two reasons. You will feel less apart
later on when employed men and women are talk-
ing of their work. You also will have known the
demands of a job, and you will feel less insecure for
your knowledge that you could have held your own

in a continiring job had you so chosen. This has
nothing to do with whether you are rich or poor.
It has to do with self-knowledge and self confi-
dence.

Later on, as all the magazines tell us these days,
in your 30's or 40's when your husband is increas-
ingly preoccupied with his work as he rises in it
and your growing children need mother less and
less — perhaps I should say they need less and less
mother — there can be a void in your life. The
woman who held a job in her youth now has the
advantage. She has more confidence and feels she
has more know-how in going outside to find good
uses of herself, whether in paid or voluntary em-
ployment, because of her early work experience.
Not for her the painful plight of the middle-aged
woman who knows it is not good to bolster herself
by holding her near-adult family too close, but who
never stood alone, never had a job, and is quite
uncertain now about how to get moving to open
a door.

There are successive careers for most educated
women, not that one can predict what they will be
for any individual, or what assortment of options
will exist in the coming decades. The current gen-
eral pattern seems to be: a job for two or three
years after college, marriage in the 20's, a small
family — small out of responsible regard to the risk
for the world of over-population — then the job
given up or reduced to part-time when the first
child is coming, home-making the primary career
in the 30's, a return to major outside activities in
the 40's, with expectation of vigorous, active years
extending through the 50's, 60's, 70's.

have enormous admiration for many married
young women I know in their 20's and 30's who are
not trying to be and do everything at once, who are
carrying well the demands of their decade in life,
and who, at the same time, with a small comer of
the mind, are forseeing and preparing for the
changes in the demands which will be made of
them as the years pass. For one woman I know, it
is painting; for another, writing one morning a
week, to keep alive the dexterity until there is more
time. For another woman it is an hour a day, five
days a week, of serious, sequential reading in her
field which is government. She does this when the
infant is napping, the other children are in school
and her husband is in his office. For that one morn-
ing hour, she turns off the telephone, lets the door-
bell ring, and is preparing herself slowly, without
strain, to have some expertness of her own to offer
in the future. There are many women like these,
their lives filled with satisfaction now, while they
make some effort to see that life always will be full
insofar as they can control what lies ahead.

These are women who are making choices, are
using their freedom. Making a choice is not saying:
/ leant. You give. That is merely infantile squalling.
Making choices is saying: This matters so much to

Miss Margaret Clapp, former President of

Wellesley College and member of Board

of Overseers of Sweet Briar with Katharine

Fisher and Anne Sniffen following her

speech at the Freshman Honors Convocation.

me that I am prepared to i^ive up that other good;
and : This matters so much to me that I am willing
freely to accept the slavery of its discipline, to do
whatever it demands in order that I may he a citi-
zen of its city. Whether this involves the totaUty of
one's hfe, or two years of it, or 40 of the 168 hours
in a week determines the number of other choices
one can make. But in each case the significance
hes in accepting and fulfilling the demands which
the choice imposes, and that inckides accepting
with grace the bitter with the sweet.

I am not sure whether process or purpose de-
\elops fiist in this business of making choices. I am
inclined to think that most of us start with process
in childhood and that the two interact increasingly
as we grow up. Process is the making of habits, it
is the ways of doing and exploring; it is the evolv-
ing of the methodologies by which one becomes
expert. Then, I think, process becomes confirmed or
revised as it leads one towards and then links with
some purpose larger than self-gratification and
which the self agrees to serve temporarily or per-
manently. The purpose — to achieve \\'hich is the
only reason for loving freedom — may be Eumenes's,
to write poetry; it may be a mother's or a teacher's,
a scholar's or a doctor's or a businesswoman's or a
social worker's here or abroad. Whatever it is, it is
supremely one's own decision made not in momen-
tary resolve but gradually, out of the whole fabric
of your habits, patterns, abilities, yearnings in and
after college. It will transcend you, somewhere
along the line, or freedom will have been wasted
on you.

close with three illustrations. All happen to
make "My country, my people " the central purpose.
I suppose this is because of the period in which we
are living. I do not stress country intentionally; it
is simply that the examples which occurred to me
as I thought of this evejiing all happen to do so.
One is the familiar John F. Kennedy call: "Not what
can my country do for me, but what can I do for
my country." (The King James Bible translates this
as not to be ministered unto but to minister. ) . The
ne.xt is from a freshman composition on a theme
used round the world: My Impressions of My Col-
lege. It was written by a Hindu girl in a little col-
lege in South India — such a poor college; I've never
seen anything like it in the U. S., Europe, or the Far

East. But from her view: "The elegant build-
ings . . . the stately palm trees and the various other
greens with their gay flowers and the sprouting
fountain — O! everything is so lovely! The little
chapel in its solemn beauty, reminds us of our duty
of thanking Him for such blessings."

Later she writes of the Library — "There are lots
of hooks here and for people who love to revel in
books, it is really a semi-paradise." Her conclusion:
"Our College means much to this big city ... It
sends out every year brilliant students, artists,
speakers, writers, efficient leaders, sportsmen and
what not, to lend an eager hand in the service of
our country and to work for its progress." I like to
think that many American students, like Ananda-
valli, see their education as something whose pur-
pose is far larger than their individual benefit.

The last illustration is a Madame Chiang story:
Once First Lady of Mainland China, now First
Lady on Taiwan, all who know her agree she is
powerful, and charming, regardless of their other
judgments of her or the issues in Asia. Visiting
Wellesley College one time, where I used to work,
she chatted with students in a dormitory living
room, saying with much amusement, "Pay no at-
tention to what your President preaches. Have
fun!" At that moment an oriental student entered
the room. I had no idea from which country she
came. Madame Chiang stiffened to erectness, her
face became stern, she said: "You are Korean. I
say to these others: Play. I say to you: Work. Learn.
Then go home. You are needed." Well, I say this
to you fellow Americans: You are needed. So look
well to the processes and purposes you adopt.

The doors for women are open as never before in
business, scholarship and professions; in private and
public employment, both at home and abroad. More
doors will open as more women go through those
which are now ajar and help society to catch new vi-
sions as they bring to bear, side by side with men,
their disciplined processes and their insights to the
ever emerging new needs and opportunities. Ours is
no static planet. Many of the issues of the 60's will not
be the issues of the 80's; there will be new ones and
new phases of old ones. They will not be solved
by crying, "I want. You give." If solved at all, it
will be because enough able people freely choose
for themselves the drudgery and joy of becoming
expert in some specific field and also the challenge
of becoming citizens of the city of ideas.

i' Vc

The

Sweet Briar Facts Are . . .

hat are these facts? How does Sweet Briar
College fit into education's financial picture?

o o o

Three pages hence, your Editors present a pic-
ture of a potential crisis in higher education that
will, the\- hope, answer this first question and cause
alumnae to ask the second. The crisis is one of fi-
nancing, and the information about it is compiled
under the direction of Editorial Projects for Edu-
cation, a non-profit organization — of which Eliza-
beth Bond Wood of Sweet Briar is a member — as-
sociated with the American Alumni Council. This
report was prepared from information received
from more than five hundred colleges and universi-
ties across the country. It is a report in depth, but
it is also comprehensive, All of us concerned with
higher education will find it timely.

But in its breadth it omits, of necessity, some in-
formation, some viewpoints, more specific for the
small liberal arts institution. For this information
and for some of these viewpoints your editors
turned to members of the Administration at Sweet
Briar. Where do the President, the Treasurer, the
Dean, the Director of Development, believe that
Sweet Briar stands in relation to what Time maga-
zine (June 23, 1967) called in a persuasive cover
story, "The precarious future of the private col-
lege." How do the facts you will read in the Special
Report that follows apply to the situation at Sweet
Briar? If the situation is indeed one of crisis, can
Sweet Briar College survive it?

On the Sweet Briar campus, the immediacy of a
national educational financial crisis is not sufficient-
ly novel for alarm. Like all educational institutions.
Sweet Briar needs money. But members of the ad-
ministration believe that financial need has been
the history of the American institution of higher
learning. "I've never known a time when any insti-
tution — and this includes Harvard — had enough
money, " says Dean Catherine S. Sims.

"Colleges from the beginning ha\'e always had
problems, " says Treasurer and Assistant to the
President Peter V. Daniel.

"William and Mary begged money from England
during and after the Revolution," says President
Anne Gary Pannell. "The struggle for the dollar is
hard today. The prophets of doom are always with
us. There are fewer private colleges. The trend is
the city college, the community college. This doesn't
mean that those who can afford to have it haven't
the right to something better. '

The attempt to provide this "something better"
at the private level has, irrefutably, failed in some
recent cases. Sweet Briar has seen the University
of Houston, the University of BufiFalo, the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, and Temple University- change
from privatel)' to publicly supported institutions.
But the last decade has been a time of tremendous
growth for Sweet Briar, as it has for education
across the nation. And financial need does not de-
stroy the balance of tlie College \ie\\'point. "The
need for more funds shows that the institution's

aspirations exceed its resources," Mrs. Sims points
out, "that it desires to improve its performance."

"No coiuitry has done what we are doing," says
Mrs. Pannell. "Within our system, there is greater
freedom, greater diversity, than there has been in
the educational system of any country heretofore.

"There are indeed problems. There are no simple
answers. Education is not a can of pulped tomatoes
where only improved machinery has to be invented
and built. Education is a long, slow, costly process."

agreement when Mrs. Pannell says, "There have
been some \cry lean years."

n the following Educational Projects tor Educa-
tion (EPE) Report, you will read that the past
decade has been a period of growth in the coun-
tr\'s educational institutions. Sweet Briar's growth
matches the national performance. Here are some
figures for comparison:

• Since 1960, five new buildings ha\e joined the
campus and a new wing has been added to the
Library. Book \alue at $2,458,000 in 1957, Sweet
Briar's physical plant has grown to $7,593,000 today.

• The median faculty salary has doubled and the
base salary — the lowest paid — has tripled since
1958.

» Both the capital expansion and the increase in
teaching budget have been made possible partly
tlirougli generous gifts from individuals, corpora-
tions, and foundations. In 1967 the alumnae alone
gave $224,382, in 1957 they had given $137,877.

• The book value of Sweet Briar's endowment
lias more than doubled during the past decade. For
1956-57, this figure was $2,100,000; for 1966-67, it
was $5,337,000, with, at the last audit, a market
\aUie of $8,195,000. Sweet Briar needs $125,000 of
endowment per student to assure a first rate educa-
tional system.

J_JPI

-"Es Special Report emphasizes the special
nature of education's financial problems. Unlike in-
dustr\', education's two primary services — teaching
and research — neither show profit nor pay for them-
selves. Moreover, the amount of money a student
pays for his education is not expected to meet the
expense of that education. For 1966-67, 80.49% of
Sweet Briar's total operating education and general
income was from student fees. Over the past dec-
ade the lowest per cent of Sweet Briar's operating
and general income supplied by student fees was
78'i, in 1958; the highest, 83.82, in 1964. Yet we
must not lose sight of the fact that a bookkeeper's
credit-debit tnaluation is not the purpose of the
educational institution. "We have a recognizable
product: the well-educated student," Mrs. Pannell
points out.

In spite of the fact that the educated student does
not grace a balance sheet as a profit dollar. Sweet
Briar has never operated on a deficit budget. This
is a matter of some pride to Treasurer Daniel, who
points to the planned accumulated deficit of some
(even some reputable) institutions. Yet he nods in

low if the worth of Sweet Briar's plant and en-
doxsnient has increased, and if the College does
not operate on a deficit budget, may we say that the
problem that faces higher education in the United
States today does not face Sweet Briar? Not at all.
What the EPE Report terms "harsh facts" of higher
education's financing are harsh facts at Sweet Briar
also. For example, total operating expenses have
almost doubled in the past ten years. For 1957-58,
tlic figure was $1,226,645; for 1966-67, a whopping
$2,410,989, with at least $2,800,000 projected for
the fiscal year that ends in June. The greater ex-
pense of running Sweet Briar may be accounted for
partlv' by the following facts:

. Student enrollment, 523 in 1957-58, reached 727
this past autumn.

• \\'ith the growth of the College and the growth
of knowledge and methods have come increasingly
expensive built-in costs: the need for costly library
acciuisitions. the switch to computers and the teach-
ing of computer programming, the hiring of Pinker-
ton men as campus security officers. New facilities
require new funds for upkeep, and a larger reserve
to co\er planned depreciation of plant, improve-
ment, and repairs.

• The growth in facult\- salaries, of which Sweet
Briar can be justly proud, accounts for a large part
of the increase in operational costs. But President
Pannell and Treasurer Daniel both state that the
salaries must become greater, that good faculty is
still in short supply, and, as Mr. Daniel puts it suc-
cinctly, "Salaries are where the pinch is." Not only
has the cost of running Sweet Briar increased
markedly, but the cost per student at Sweet Briar
has risen steadily. Thus in 1957-58, the cost of an
individual student's education was $3,052. For the
fiscal year that ended last June, the cost was $3,896,
or frighteningly close to four thousand dollars. With
the tuition at $3,100, this means that each student
costs the College almost $800.

\\'ith so much money at stake. Sweet Briar is as
anxious as other institutions that the funds be put
to the greatest and most efficient use possible. Al-
though within its present limits such use at Sweet
Briar is efficient, Mr. Daniel terms an unused plant
during the summer months "a luxury we cannot af-
ford." He c^uestions, too, a teaching ratio of ten
students to one faculty member, when a ratio as
high as twenty to one has been recommended by
some authorities, although not specifically for Sweet
Briar. This summer, the College will offer a short
course in Ornithology and Ecology, and the an-
nual riding clinic will again be held. It will once
more make the campus a\ailable to a group of
some 250 Presbyterian high school students from
Lexington Parish, Montgomery and Appomattox
Presbyterys \\'ho use the Meta Glass kitchen and
dormitories on that side of the campus as well as

the gym, the lake, Benedict, and the chapel. But
these three programs constitute only three weeks
of use. Mr. Daniel envisions expanding summer use
of the campus, perhaps with a Language Institute
run by the College. He hopes for a possible expan-
sion of the student body: with little expansion of
now more-than-adequate facilities, and little expan-
sion of the faculty, the faculty-student ratio might
become twelve-sixteen to one. This would be one
of the greatest economies that would quickly
achieve higher salaries for a smaller faculty. But in
none of the moves toward increased efficiency does
he, or any other member of the administration, wish
to impair the quality of the educational oppor-
tunities a\ailable at Sweet Briar. Such quality is
undeniably expensive.

ust as certain as the rise of educational costs
across the nation is the rise in operational costs at
Sweet Briar. Inflation will account for a three per
cent rise each year if the national economy con-
tinues in its present course. Faculty salaries and
the built-in costs like those described above will
rise. Where will Sweet Briar find the money?

Since more than eighty per cent of the opera-
tional costs were met during the past fiscal year by
student fees, we might well ask what will happen
if student fees are raised. One easily foreseeable
result is that more of the qualified applicants would
probably apply for scholarship assistance. Current-
ly, the usable income from endowed scholarships is
about $53,000 a year, and the College counts on
$16,000 to $1S,006 in gifts, the greater part of these
gifts from Proctor and Gamble, General Motors,
and the alumnae clubs. The College awards about
a hundred scholarships a year, in amounts from
$500 to $2,650. Much of the scholarship aid. there-
fore, comes from the College's current income. For
1967-68, fourteen per cent of the student body re-
ceived scholarship funds, which amounted to $145,-
000. Half of this sum came from the College's cur-
rent income and half from endowment income
and gifts. In 1956-57, close to the same per cent of
the student body received aid, to the amount of
$54,000, of which im rather than 50^ came from
current income. There are various student loan
plans available, and many students, with or with-
out scholarships, help earn their college funds. But
many qualified students today cannot afford to
come to Sweet Briar. There would no doubt be
more of these if student fees had to be raised sub-
stantially. "For the Class of '72, seventy-six applied
for aid," says Dean Sims. "If we could offer larger
scholarships we could interest some very able stu-
dents who are not able to come to Sweet Briar
now, but what per cent more is something you
can't tell.

"We know that Sweet Briar needs resources to
provide for a much more varied student body,
one which is intellectually capable of doing, and
prepared to do, work at college at the level of

which that work is offered," she continues. "We
need a group varied in cultural and socio-economic
background as the interaction of students upon one
another is a important part of the process of educa-
tion. Rising tuition will limit the variety of the stu-
dent body unless more scholarship funds are avail-
able."

Where else besides student fees might funds to
meet rising operational costs at Sweet Briar be
found? "A lot of people say that the federal govern-
ment is the only source of support for education,"
says Peter Daniel glumly — but he acknowledges
that the federal government has given no sign of
meeting operational costs at public, much less pri-
vate, institutions. In New York, Pennsylvania and
Maryland the state legislature has appropriated
funds for private as well as public institutions, but
Virginia does not appear inclined to follow the lead
of these states.

Today six per cent of Sweet Briar's operational
costs are met by gifts and grants. Even to keep the
percent the same the amount of gifts must increase
as operational costs increase. A great group of
donors is the alumnae of Sweet Briar — but impres-
sive as is their record for giving, the alumnae last
year were only 10% better than the national norm
in supporting the College. According to the EPE
Report, "one out of every four alumni and alumnae
contributes to higher education." For 1966-1967,
35.6% of Sweet Briar's alumnae contributed to the
Alumnae Fund.

Another great group of donors is the business
community of the Commonwealth of Virginia, who
are solicited annually by the president of the twelve
institutions that form the Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges. Through the last fiscal year,
Sweet Briar had received $623,288 from the VFIC
since its inception in 1953. The undesignated funds
from the VFIC are used for faculty salaries — $58,-
301 for 1966-67 — and are a part of the current in-
come rather than of the permanent wealth of the
College. It is to large national corporations and
foundations, and to generous individual friends of
the College, that Sweet Briar must look for increas-
ing its wealth if it is not to rely upon increasing
student fees. "Our only way to get much more
money is to increase fees or endowment," says Presi-
dent Pannell. "It's as simple as that."

'o what will happen if funds to augment the
wealth of Sweet Briar are not found? And what
would be the ideal fiscal arrangement — short of
unlimited funds, a Utopia scarcely to be considered
— for Sweet Briar? Before we turn to these ques-
tions we must make relevant for ourselves a point
discussed in the EPE Report about the competition
between the public and the private institution for
support. Does this competition exist for Sweet
Briar? — a college that seeks no state funds? Ap-
parently so. For public institutions increasingly
seek private funds, which are then diverted from

pri\'ate institutions. Now there are probably more
pri\'ate funds available for philanthropic giving to
higher education than has reached higher educa-
tion thus far. The EPE Report cites corporation giv-
ing (where 5% of net income is allowed for tax
purposes by the Federal government, but 1.1^
actually contributed to charitable causes and only
.5% to education) and individual giving both as
partially untapped sources of potential donations.
But when public institutions are not supported en-
tirely by public funds, but must appeal to private
sources for funds, then the public is being deluded
The public has recognized the need for the institu
tion; part of its wealth is being used to meet tht,
need. If not enough of its wealth is being used to
meet the need — if, for e.xample, the state legislature
appropriates only a part of the sum deemed neces-
sary for a given educational project, as has hap-
pened in Virginia in recent years — than the public
is not supporting adequately that for which it as-
sumed responsibility. "It is a fact that where pri-
vate higher education is strongest, per capital tax
expenditures for public institutions are lowest,"
Lea Booth, Executive Secretary of the Virginia
Foundation for Independent Colleges, has said. "If
the people of Virginia, through their elected repre-
sentatives, fail to accept their full responsibility
for maintaining a strong system of public higher
education supported by an appropriate tax program
and enlightened legislative action, but instead rely
upon voluntary financing, both the private and
public institutions will find it difficult to perform
the larger task expected of them."

, o return to the first of our two conclusive ques-
tions. What will happen if funds to augment the
wealth of Sweet Briar are not found? The large and
beautiful campus, the bricks and mortar are there.
The initiative and generosity of those who care
about the College have tripled the book value of
the plant in the last decade. But the two most im-
portant components of an institution of higher
learning are the teachers and the taught. Upon
them hang the very being of the College. "Although
the salaries of many of our long-term faculty mem-
bers are not what they would be on the current
market, loyalty keeps some of them here, loyalty as
well as satisfaction in their work," Dean Sims says.
"For the new members of the faculty, if funds are
not available to compete with other institutions for
good teachers we must be prepared to employ in-
experienced teachers and those whose professional
training has not been completed. We would use ad-
ditional funds, if they were available, for improv-
ing salaries of good teachers already here and for

filling openings with fully qualified appointees."

And for the students, as Dean Sims has stated,
a rise in fees may mean that some of those qualified
must seek admission elsewhere. This would hurt
Sweet Briar as much as the hiring of unqualified
teachers. It is plain that the two unfortunate cir-
cumstances would augment each other. An excellent
institution attracts excellent students because it has
an excellent faculty. It attracts an excellent faculty
because it draws excellent students. The reverse of
these two statements is equally true.

hat, on the other hand, would be the ideal
foreseeable financial future for Sweet Briar Col-
lege? In a nutshell, according to Treasurer Daniel,
it would be to increase the endowment so that from
it would come 25% to 30% (rather than the current
11%) of the education and general income dollar.
For scholarships, according to Dean Sims, it would
be to award $200,000 each year, with not more than
$50,000 coming from the College's general un-
endowed funds. Paul B. Hood, Director of Develop-
ment, looks forward to an endowment large enough
to meet Peter V. Daniel's requirements and then
some. "A lot has been said about survival," says
the Director of Development. "I don't think we're
concerned just with survival. We're concerned with
taking Sweet Briar beyond survival, to make it the
academic jewel of the nation.

"We would like to have the means to raise the
whole level of faculty salaries," Mr. Hood goes on,
"and at the same time to create centers of excel-
lence in key departments of the College through
Distinguished Professorships. Such a professor
would inspire students and colleagues alike. In-
structors and assistant professors would want to
come to Sweet Briar to work with such a professor.
We would hope to have eleven such distinguished
teachers. This may sound ambitious. But if we don't
set our sights high we will fall behind.

"We must get more of the graduates and non-
graduates of the College fired and enthusiastic
enough about the real need of their College in
order to continue to do a first-rate job. What we
hope to accomplish will take a greater effort than
has been put forth before."

"Not every private college will survive," President
Pannell points out. "But the good private college
that provides excellent -education and training will
receive adequate support.

"Sweet Briar's survival depends upon the will
power, the generosity, the truly sacrificial giving,
of parents, alumnae and friends of the College."

A Special Report

The

Plain Fact Is . .

. . . our colleges and
universities "are facing
what might easily
become a crisis''

OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, Over the last 20 years, have
experienced an expansion that is without precedent — in build-
ings and in budgets, in students and in professors, in reputation
and in rewards — in power and pride and in deserved prestige. As
we try to tell our countrymen that we are faced with imminent
bankruptcy, we confront the painful fact that in the eyes of the
American people — and I think also in the eyes of disinterested
observers abroad — we are a triumphant success. The observers
seem to believe — and I believe myself — that the American cam-
pus ranks with the American corporation among the handful of
first-class contributions which our civilization has made to the
annals of human institutions. We come before the country to
plead financial emergency at a time when our public standing
has never been higher. It is at the least an unhappy accident of
timing.

— McGeorge Bundy

President, The Ford Foundation

x^r^.

A Special Report

A STATE-SUPPORTED UNIVERSITY in the Midwest makes
f^L a sad announcement: With more well-qualified
r — ^ applicants for its freshman class than ever be-
A ^^L-fore, the university must tighten its entrance
requirements. Qualified though the kids are, the univer-
sity must turn many of them away.

► A private college in New England raises its tuition
fee for the seventh time since World War If. In doing
so, it admits ruefully: "Many of the best high-school
graduates can't afford to come here, any more."

► A state college network in the West, long regarded
as one of the nation's finest, cannot offer its students
the usual range of instruction this year. Despite inten-
sive recruiting, more than 1,000 openings on the faculty
were unfilled at the start of the academic year.

► A church-related college in the South, whose de-
nomination's leaders believe in strict separation of church
and state, severs its church ties in order to seek money
from the government. The college must have such money,
say its administrators — or it will die.

Outwardly, America's colleges and universities ap-
pear more affluent than at any time in the past. In the
aggregate they have more money, more students, more
buildings, better-paid faculties, than ever before in their
history.

Yet many are on the edge of deep trouble.

"The plain fact," in the words of the president of
Columbia University, "is that we are facing what might
easily become a crisis in the financing of American higher
education, and the sooner we know about it, the better
off we will be."

THE TROUBLE is uot limited to a few institutions.
Nor does it affect only one or two types of
institution. Large universities, small colleges;
state-supported and privately supported: the
problem faces them all.

Before preparing this report, the editors asked more
than 500 college and university presidents to tell us —
off the record, if they preferred — just how they viewed
the future of their institutions. With rare exceptions, the
presidents agreed on this assessment: That the money is
not now in sight to meet the rising costs of higher educa-
tion . . . to serve the growing numbers of bright, qualified
students . . . and to pay for the myriad activities that Amer-
icans now demand of their colleges and universities.
Important programs and necessary new buildings are

LL OF US are hard-put to see where we are going
to get the funds to meet the educational demands
of the coming decade.

— A university president

being deferred for lack of money, the presidents said.
Many admitted to budget-tightening measures reminis-
cent of those taken in days of the Great Depression.

Is this new? Haven't the colleges and universities al-
ways needed money? Is there something different about
the situation today?

The answer is "Yes" — to all three questions.

The president of a large state university gave us this
view of the over-all situation, at both the publicly and
the privately supported institutions of higher education:

"A good many institutions of higher learning are
operating at a deficit," he said. "First, the private col-
leges and universities: they are eating into their endow-
ments in order to meet their expenses. Second, the public
institutions. It is not legal to spend beyond our means,
but here we have another kind of deficit: a deficit in
quality, which will be extremely difficult to remedy even
when adequate funding becomes available."

Other presidents' comments were equally revealing:

► From a university in the Ivy League: "Independent
national universities face an uncertain future which
threatens to blunt their thrust, curb their leadership, and
jeopardize their independence. Every one that I know
about is facing a deficit in its operating budget, this
year or next. And all of us are hard-put to see where we
are going to get the funds to meet the educational de-
mands of the coming decade."

► From a municipal college in the Midwest: "The best
word to describe our situation is 'desperate.' We are
operating at a deficit of about 20 per cent of our total
expenditure."

► From a private liberal arts college in Missouri: "Only
by increasing our tuition charges are we keeping our
heads above water. Expenditures are galloping to such
a degree that I don't know how we will make out in the
future."

► From a church-related university on the West Coast:
"We face very serious problems. Even though our tuition
is below-average, we have already priced ourselves out of
part of our market. We have gone deeply into debt for
dormitories. Our church support is declining. At times,
the outlook is grim."

► From a state university in the Big Ten: "The bud-
get for our operations must be considered tight. It is
less than we need to meet the demands upon the univer-
sity for teaching, research, and public service."

► From a smaH liberal arts college in Ohio: "We are

on a hand-to-mouth, 'kitchen' economy. Our ten-year
projections indicate that we can maintain our quality
only by doubling in size."

► From a small college in the Northeast: "For the
first time in its 1 50-year history, our college has a planned
deficit. We are holding our heads above water at the
moment — but, in terms of quality education, this can-
not long continue without additional means of support."

► From a state college in California: "We are not
permitted to operate at a deficit. The funding of our bud-
get at a level considerably below that proposed by the
trustees has made it diflficult for us to recruit staff mem-
bers and has forced us to defer very-much-needed im-
provements in our existing activities."

► From a women's college in the South: "For the
coming year, our budget is the tightest we have had in
my fifteen years as president."

What's gone wrong?
Talk of the sort quoted above may
seem strange, as one looks at the un-
paralleled growth of America's colleges
and universities during the past decade:

► Hardly a campus in the land does not have a brand-
new building or one under construction. Colleges and
universities are spending more than $2 billion a year for jk
capital expansion.

► Faculty salaries have nearly doubled in the past
decade. (But in some regions they are still woefully low.)

► Private, voluntary support to colleges and univer-
sities has more than tripled since 1958. Higher educa-
tion's share of the philanthropic dollar has risen from
1 1 per cent to 17 per cent.

► State tax funds appropriated for higher education
have increased 44 per cent in just two years, to a 1967-68
total of nearly $4.4 billion. This is 214 per cent more than !■
the sum appropriated eight years ago.

► Endowment funds have more than doubled over
the past decade. They're now estimated to be about $12 '
billion, at market value.

► Federal funds going to institutions of higher educa-
tion have more than doubled in four years.

► More than 300 new colleges and universities have
been founded since 1945.

► All in all, the total expenditure this year for U.S.
higher education is some $18 billion — more than three
times as much as in 1955.

Moreover, America's colleges and universities have
absorbed the tidal wave of students that was supposed to
have swamped them by now. They have managed to ful-
fill their teaching and research functions and to under-
take a variety of new public-service programs — despite
the ominous predictions of faculty shortages heard ten
or fifteen years ago. Says one foundation oflicial:

"The system is bigger, stronger, and more productive
than it has ever been, than any system of higher educa-
tion in the world."

Why, then, the growing concern?

Re-examine the progress of the past ten years, and
this fact becomes apparent: The progress was great —
but it did not deal with the basic flaws in higher educa-
tion's financial situation. Rather, it made the whole en-
terprise bigger, more sophisticated, and more expensive.

Voluntary contributions grew — but the complexity and
costliness of the nation's colleges and universities grew
faster.

Endowment funds grew — but the need for the income
from them grew faster.

State appropriations grew — but the need grew faster.

Faculty salaries were rising. New courses were needed,
due to the unprecedented "knowledge explosion." More
costly apparatus was required, as scientific progress grew
more complex. Enrollments burgeoned — and students
stayed on for more advanced (and more expensive) train-
ing at higher levels.

And, for most of the nation's 2,300 colleges and uni-
versities, an old problem remained — and was intensified,
as the costs of education rose: gifts, endowment, and
government funds continued to go, disproportionately,
to a relative handful of institutions. Some 36 per cent of
all voluntary contributions, for example, went to just 55
major universities. Some 90 per cent of all endowment
funds were owned by fewer than 5 per cent of the insti-
tutions. In 1966, the most recent year reported, some 70
per cent of the federal government's funds for higher
education went to 100 institutions.

McGeorge Bundy, the president of the Ford Founda-
tion, puts it this way:

"Great gains have been made; the academic profession
has reached a wholly new level of economic strength,
and the instruments of excellence — the libraries and

Drawings by Peter Hooven

ACH NEW ATTEMPT at a massive solution has left
the trustees and presidents just where they started.

— A foundation president

laboratories — are stronger than ever. But the university
that pauses to look back will quickly fall behind in the
endless race to the future."

Mr. Bundy says further:

"The greatest general problem of higher education is
money .... The multiplying needs of the nation's col-
leges and universities force a recognition that each new
attempt at a massive solution has left the trustees and
presidents just where they started: in very great need."

THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS of higher education
are unlike those, say, of industry. Colleges and
universities do not operate like General Mo-
tors. On the contrary, they sell their two pri-
mary services — teaching and research — at a loss.

It is safe to say (although details may differ from
institution to institution) that the American college or
university student pays only a fraction of the cost of his
education.

This cost varies with the level of education and with
the educational practices of the institution he attends.
Undergraduate education, for instance, costs less than
graduate education — which in turn may cost less than
medical education. And the cost of educating a student
in the sciences is greater than in the humanities. What-
ever the variations, however, the student's tuition and
fees pay only a portion of the bill.

"As private enterprises," says one president, "we don't
seem to be doing so well. We lose money every time we
take in another student."

Of course, neither he nor his colleagues on other
campuses would have it otherwise. Nor, it seems clear,
would most of the American people.

But just as student instruction is provided at a sub-
stantial reduction from the actual cost, so is the research
that the nation's universities perform on a vast scale for
the federal government. On this particular below-cost
service, as contrasted with that involving the provision
of education to their students, many colleges and univer-
sities are considerably less than enthusiastic.

In brief: The federal government rarely pays the full
cost of the research it sponsors. Most of the money goes
for direct costs (compensation for faculty time, equip-
ment, computer use, etc.) Some of it goes for indirect
costs (such "overhead" costs of the institution as payroll
departments, libraries, etc.). Government policy stipu-
lates that the institutions receiving federal research grants

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.nust share in the cost of the research by contributing, in
some fashion, a percentage of the total amount of the
grant.

University presidents have insisted for many years
that the government should pay the full cost of the re-
search it sponsors. Under the present system of cost-
sharing, they point out, it actually costs their institutions
money to conduct federally sponsored research. This has
been one of the most controversial issues in the partner-
ship between higher education and the federal govern-
ment, and it continues to be so.

In commercial terms, then, colleges and universities
sell their products at a loss. If they are to avoid going
bankrupt, they must make up — from other sources — the
difference between the income they receive for their ser-
vices and the money they spend to provide them.

With costs spiraling upward, that task becomes ever
more formidable.

HERE ARE SOME of the harsh facts: Operating ex-
penditures for higher education more than
tripled during the past decade — from about $4
billion in 1956 to S12.7 billion last year. By
1970, if government projections are correct, colleges and
universities will be spending over $18 billion for their
current operations, plus another S2 billion or $3 billion
for capital expansion.

Why SLch steep increases in expenditures? There are
several reasons:

► Student enrollment is now close to 7 million —
twice what it was in 1960.

► The rapid accumulation of new knowledge and a
resulting trend toward specialization have led to a broad-
ening of the curricula, a sharp increase in graduate study,
a need for sophisticated new equipment, and increased
library acquisitions. All are very costly.

► An unprecedented growth in faculty salaries — long
overdue — has raised instructional costs at most institu-
tions. (Faculty salaries account for roughly half of the
educational expenses of the average institution of higher
learning.)

► About 20 per cent of the financial "growth" during
the past decade is accounted for by inflation.

Not only has the over-all cost of higher education in-
creased markedly, but the cost per student has risen
steadily, despite increases in enrollment which might, in
any other "industry," be expected to lower the unit cost.

Colleges and universities apparently have not im-
proved their productivity at the same pace as the econ-
omy generally. A recent study of the financial trends in
three private universities illustrates this. Between 1905
and 1966, the educational cost per student at the three
universities, viewed compositely, increased 20-fold,
against an economy-wide increase of three- to four-fold.
In each of the three periods of peace, direct costs per
student increased about 8 per cent, against a 2 per cent
annual increase in the economy-wide index.

Some observers conclude from this that higher educa-
tion must be made more efficient — that ways must be
found to educate more students with fewer faculty and
staff members. Some institutions have moved in this
direction by adopting a year-round calendar of opera-
tions, permitting them to make maximum use of the
faculty and physical plant. Instructional devices, pro-
grammed learning, closed-circuit television, and other
technological systems are being employed to increase
productivity and to gain economies through larger
classes.

The problem, however, is to increase efficiency with-
out jeopardizing the special character of higher educa-
tion. Scholars are quick to point out that management
techniques and business practices cannot be applied
easily to colleges and universities. They observe, for
example, that on strict cost-accounting principles, a col-
lege could not justify its library. A physics professor,
complaining about large classes, remarks: "When you
get a hundred kids in a classroom, that's not education;
that's show business."

The college and university presidents whom we sur-
veyed in the preparation of this report generally believe
their institutions are making every dollar work. There is
room for improvement, they acknowledge. But few feel
the financial problems of higher education can be signifi-
cantly reduced through more efficient management.

ONE THING seems fairly certain: The costs of
I higher education will continue to rise. To
* meet their projected expenses, colleges and
universities will need to increase their annual
operating income by more than $4 billion during the
four-year period between 1966 and 1970. They must find
another $8 billion or $10 billion for capital outlays.
Consider what this might mean for a typical private

university. A recent report presented this hypothetical
case, based on actual projections of university expendi-
tures and income:

The institution's budget is now in balance. Its educa-
tional and general expenditures total S24.5 million a
year.

Assume that the university's expenditures per student
will continue to grow at the rate of the past ten years —
7.5 per cent annually. Assume, too, that the university's
enrollment will continue to grow at its rate of the past
ten years — 3.4 per cent annually. Ten years hence, the
institution's educational and general expenses would total
$70.7 million.

At best, continues the analysis, tuition payments in
the next ten years will grow at a rate of 6 per cent a year;
at worst, at a rate of 4 per cent — compared with 9 per
cent over the past ten years. Endowment income will
grow at a rate of 3.5 to 5 per cent, compared with 7.7 per
cent over the past decade. Gifts and grants will grow at
a rate of 4.5 to 6 per cent, compared with 6.5 per cent
over the past decade.

"If the income from private sources grew at the higher
rates projected," says the analysis, "it would increase
from $24.5 million to $50.9 million — leaving a deficit of
$19.8 million, ten years hence. If its income from private
sources grew at the lower rates projected, it would have
increased to only $43 million — leaving a shortage of
$27.8 million, ten years hence."

In publicly supported colleges and universities, the
outlook is no brighter, although the gloom is of a differ-
ent variety. Says the report of a study by two professors
at the University of Wisconsin:

"Public institutions of higher education in the United
States are now operating at a quality deficit of more than
a billion dollars a year. In addition, despite heavy con-
struction schedules, they have accumulated a major capi-
tal lag."

The deficit cited by the Wisconsin professors is a com-
putation of the cost of bringing the public institutions'
expenditures per student to a level comparable with that
at the private institutions. With the enrollment growth
expected by 1975, the professors calculate, the "quality
deficit" in public higher education will reach $2.5 billion.

The problem is caused, in large part, by the tremendous
enrollment increases in public colleges and universities.
The institutions' resources, says the Wisconsin study,
"may not prove equal to the task."

Moreover, there are indications that public institutions
may be nearing the limit of expansion, unless they receive
a massive infusion of new funds. One of every seven pub-
lic universities rejected qualified applicants from their
own states last fall; two of every seven rejected qualified
applicants from other states. One of every ten raised ad-
missions standards for in-state students; one in six raised
standards for out-of-state students.

WILL THE FUNDS be found to meet the pro-
jected cost increases of higher education?
Colleges and universities have tradi-
tionally received their operating income
from three sources: /row the students, in the form of tui-
tion and fees; from the state, in the form of legislative
appropriations; and from individuals, foundations, and
corporations, in the form of gifts. (Money from the federal
government for operating expenses is still more of a hope
than a reality.)

Can these traditional sources of funds continue to
meet the need? The question is much on the minds of the
nation's college and university presidents.

► Tuition and fees: They have been rising — and are
likely to rise more. A number of private "prestige" in-
stitutions have passed the $2,000 mark. Public institutions
are under mounting pressure to raise tuition and fees,
and their student charges have been rising at a faster rate
than those in private institutions.

The problem of student charges is one of the most
controversial issues in higher education today. Some feel
that the student, as the direct beneficiary of an education,
should pay most or all of its real costs. Others disagree
emphatically: since society as a whole is the ultimate
beneficiary, they argue, every student should have the
right to an education, whether he can afford it or not.

The leaders of publicly supported colleges and univer-
sities are almost unanimous on this point: that higher
tuitions and fees will erode the premise of equal oppor-

_1.uition: We are reaching a point of diminishing
returns. — A college president

It's like buying a second home. — A parent

lunity on which public higher education is based. They
>vould like to see the present trend reversed — toward free,
Dr at least lower-cost, higher education.

Leaders of private institutions find the rising tuitions
equally disturbing. Heavily dependent upon the income
:hey receive from students, many such institutions find
:hat raising their tuition is inescapable, as costs rise,
scores of presidents surveyed for this report, however,
>aid that mounting tuition costs are "pricing us out of
;he market." Said one: "As our tuition rises beyond the
■each of a larger and larger segment of the college-age
copulation, we find it more and more difficult to attract
3ur quota of students. We are reaching a point of dimin-
shing returns."

Parents and students also are worried. Said one father
Aho has been financing a college education for three
daughters: "It's like buying a second home."

Stanford Professor Roger A. Freeman says it isn't
really that bad. In his book. Crisis in College Finance?,
le points out that when tuition increases have been ad-
justed to the shrinking value of the dollar or are related
;o rising levels of income, the cost to the student actually
ieclined between 1941 and 1961. But this is small consola-
:ion to a man with an annual salary of $15,000 and three
daughters in college.

Colleges and universities will be under increasing pres-
sure to raise their rates still higher, but if they do, they
kvill run the risk of pricing themselves beyond the means
3f more and more students. Indeed, the evidence is strong
that resistance to high tuition is growing, even in rela-
tively well-to-do families. The College Scholarship Ser-
k'ice, an arm of the College Entrance Examination Board,
reported recently that some middle- and upper-income
parents have been "substituting relatively low-cost insti-
tutions" because of the rising prices at some of the na-
tion's colleges and universities.

The presidents of such institutions have nightmares
Dver such trends. One of them, the head of a private
:ollege in Minnesota, told us:

"We are so dependent upon tuition for approximately
50 per cent of our operating expenses that if 40 fewer
students come in September than we expect, we could
have a budgetary deficit this year of $50,000 or more."

► State appropriations: The 50 states have appropri-
ated nearly $4.4 billion for their colleges and universities
this year— a figure that includes neither the $l-$2 billion
spent by public institutions for capital expansion, nor
the appropriations of local governments, which account

for about 10 per cent of all public appropriations for the
operating expenses of higher education.

The record set by the states is remarkable — one that
many observers would have declared impossible, as re-
cently as eight years ago. In those eight years, the states
have increased their appropriations for higher education
by an incredible 214 per cent.

Can the states sustain this growth in their support of
higher education? Will they be willing to do so?

The more pessimistic observers believe that the states
can't and won't, without a drastic overhaul in the tax
structures on which state financing is based. The most
productive tax sources, such observers say, have been
pre-empted by the federal government. They also believe
that more and more state funds will be used, in the fu-
ture, to meet increasing demands for other services.

Optimists, on the other hand, are convinced the states
are far from reaching the upper limits of their ability to
raise revenue. Tax reforms, they say, will enable states
to increase their annual budgets sufficiently to meet higher
education's needs.

The debate is theoretical. As a staff report to the Ad-
visory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations con-
cluded: "The appraisal of a state's fiscal capacity is a
political decision [that] it alone can make. It is not a
researchable prob'em."

Ultimately, in short, the decision rests with the tax-
payer.

► Voluntary private gifts: Gifts are vital to higher
education.

In private colleges and universities, they are part of the
lifeblood. Such institutions commonly budget a deficit,
and then pray that it will be met by private gifts.

In public institutions, private gifts supplement state
appropriations. They provide what is often called "a
margin for excellence." Many public institutions use such
funds to raise faculty salaries above the levels paid for by
the state, and are thus able to compete for top scholars.
A number of institutions depend upon private gifts for
student facilities that the state does not provide.

Will private giving grow fast enough to meet the grow-
ing need? As with state appropriations, opinions vary.

John J. Schwartz, executive director of the American
Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, feels there is a
great untapped reservoir. At present, for example, only
one out of every four alumni and alumnae contributes to
higher education. And, while American business corpora-
tions gave an estimated $300 million to education

in 1965-66, this was only about 0.37 per cent of their net
income before taxes. On the average, companies contrib-
ute only about 1.10 per cent of net income before taxes
to all causes — well below the 5 per cent allowed by the
Federal government. Certainly there is room for expan-
sion.

(Colleges and universities are working overtime to tap
this reservoir. Mr. Schwartz's association alone lists 117
colleges and universities that are now campaigning to
raise a combined total of S4 billion.)

But others are not so certain that expansion in private
giving will indeed take place. The 46th annual survey by
the John Price Jones Company, a firm of fund-raising
counselors, sampled 50 colleges and universities and found
a decline in voluntary giving of 8.7 per cent in 12 months.
The Council for Financial Aid to Education and the
American Alumni Council calculate that voluntary sup-
port for higher education in 1965-66 declined by some
1.2 per cent in the same period.

Refining these figures gives them more meaning. The
major private universities, for example, received about
36 per cent of the SI. 2 billion given to higher education
■ — a decrease from the previous year. Private liberal arts
colleges also fell behind: coeducational colleges dropped
10 per cent, men's colleges dropped 16.2 per cent, and
women's colleges dropped 12.6 percent. State institutions,
on the other hand, increased their private support by
23.8 percent.

The record of some cohesive groups of colleges and
universities is also revealing. Voluntary support of eight
Ivy League institutions declined 27.8 per cent, for a total
loss of S61 million. The Seven College Conference, a
group of women's colleges, reported a drop of 41 per cent.
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest dropped about

N THE QUESTION OF FEDERAL AID, everybody seems
to be running to the same side of the boat.

— A college president

5.5 per cent. The Council of Southern Universities de-
clined 6.2 per cent. Fifty-five major private universities
received 7.7 per cent less from gifts.

Four groups gained. The state universities and colleges
received 20.5 per cent more in private gifts in 1965-66
than in the previous year. Fourteen technological insti-
tutions gained 10.8 per cent. Members of the Great Lakes
College Association gained 5.6 per cent. And Western
Conference universities, plus the University of Chicago,
gained 34.5 per cent. (Within each such group, of course,
individual colleges may have gained or lost differently
from the group as a whole.)

The biggest drop in voluntary contributions came in
foundation grants. Although this may have been due, in
part, to the fact that there had been some unusually large
grants the previous year, it may also have been a fore-
taste of things to come. Many of those who observe
foundations closely think such grants will be harder and
harder for colleges and universities to come by, in years
to come.

FEARING that the traditional sources of revenue may
not yield the necessary funds, college and uni-
versity presidents are looking more and more to
Washington for the solution to their financial
problems.

The president of a large state university in the South,
whose views are typical of many, told us: "Increased fed-
eral support is essential to the fiscal stability of the col-
leges and universities of the land. And such aid is a proper
federal expenditure."

Most of his colleagues agreed — some reluctantly. Said
the president of a college in Iowa: "I don't like it . . . but
it may be inevitable." Another remarked: "On the ques-

tion of federal aid, everybody seems to be running to the
same side of the boat."

More federal aid is almost certain to come. The ques-
tion is. When? And in what form?

Realism compels this answer: In the near future, the
federal government is unlikely to provide substantial
support for the operating expenses of the country's col-
leges and universities.

The war in Vietnam is one reason. Painful effects of
war-prompted economies have already been felt on the
campuses. The effective federal funding of research per
faculty member is declining. Construction grants are be-
coming scarcer. Fellowship programs either have been
reduced or have merely held the line.

Indeed, the changes in the flow of federal money to the
campuses may be the major event that has brought higher
education's financial problems to their present head.

Would things be different in a peacetime economy?
Many college and university administrators think so.
They already are planning for the day when the Vietnam
war ends and when, the thinking goes, huge sums of fed-
eral money will be available for higher education. It is no
secret that some government officials are operating on
the same assumption and are designing new programs of
support for higher education, to be put into effect when
the war ends.

Others are not so certain the postwar money flow is
that inevitable. One of the doubters is Clark Kerr, former
president of the University of California and a man with
considerable first-hand knowledge of the relationship be-
tween higher education and the federal government. Mr.
Kerr is inclined to believe that the colleges and universi-
ties will have to fight for their place on a national priority
list that will be crammed with a number of other pressing

OLLEGES AND UNrvERSiTiES are tough. They have
survived countless cataclysms and crises, and one
way or another they will endure.

— A college president

problems: air and water pollution, civil rights, and the
plight of the nation's cities, to name but a few.

One thing seems clear: The pattern of federal aid must
change dramatically, if it is to help solve the financial
problems of U.S. higher education. Directly or indirectly,
more federal dollars must be applied to meeting the in-
creasing costs of operating the colleges and universities,
even as the government continues its support of students,
of building programs, and of research.

IN SEARCHING for a way out of their financial difficul-
ties, colleges and universities face the hazard that their
individual interests may conflict. Some form of com-
petition (since the institutions are many and the
sources of dollars few) is inevitable and healthy. But one
form of competition is potentially dangerous and de-
structive and, in the view of impartial supporters of all
institutions of higher education, must be avoided at all
costs.

This is a conflict between private and public colleges
and universities.

In simpler times, there was little cause for friction.
Public institutions received their funds from the states.
Private institutions received their funds from private
sources.

No longer. All along the line, and with increasing fre-
quency, both types of institution are seeking both public
and private support — often from the same sources:

► The state treasuries: More and more private insti-
tutions are suggesting that some form of state aid is not
only necessary but appropriate. A number of states have
already enacted programs of aid to students attending
private institutions. Some 40 per cent of the state ap-
propriation for higher education in Pennsylvania now
goes to private institutions.
I ► The private philanthropists: More and more public
institutions are seeking gifts from individuals, founda-
tions, and corporations, to supplement the funds they
receive from the state. As noted earlier in this report,
their efforts are meeting with growing success.
j ► The federal government: Both public and private
j colleges and universities receive funds from Washington.
But the different types of institution sometimes disagree
on the fundamentals of distributing it.

Should the government help pay the operating costs of
colleges and universities by making grants directly to the
institutions — perhaps through a formula based on enroll-

ments? The heads of many public institutions are inclined
to think so. The heads of many low-enrollment, high-
tuition private institutions, by contrast, tend to favor pro-
grams that operate indirectly — perhaps by giving enough
money to the students themselves, to enable them to pay
for an education at whatever institutions they might
choose.

Similarly, the strongest opposition to long-term, fed-
erally underwritten student-loan plans— some envisioning
a payback period extending over most of one's lifetime —
comes from public institutions, while some private-college
and university leaders find, in such plans, a hope that
their institutions might be able to charge "full-cost" tui-
tion rates without barring students whose families can't
afford to pay.

In such frictional situations, involving not only billions
of dollars but also some very deep-seated convictions
about the country's educational philosophy, the chances
that destructive conflicts might develop are obviously
great. If such conflicts were to grow, they could only sap
the energies of all who engage in them.

IF THERE IS INDEED A CRISIS building in American higher
education, it is not solely a problem of meeting the
minimum needs of our colleges and universities in
the years ahead. Nor, for most, is it a question of
survive or perish; "colleges and universities are tough,"
as one president put it; "they have survived countless
cataclysms and crises, and one way or another they will
endure."

The real crisis will be finding the means of providing
the quality, the innovation, the pioneering that the nation
needs, if its system of higher education is to meet the
demands of the morrow.

Not only must America's colleges and universities
serve millions more students in the years ahead; they
must also equip these young people to live in a world that
is changing with incredible swiftness and complexity. At
the same time, they must carry on the basic research on
which the nation's scientific and technological advance-
ment rests. And they must be ever-ready to help meet the
immediate and long-range needs of society; ever-responsive
to society's demands.

At present, the questions outnumber the answers.

► How can the United States make sure that its col-
leges and universities not only will accomplish the mini-
mum task but will, in the words of one corporate leader,

OTHiNG IS MORE IMPORTANT than the Critical and
knowledgeable interest of our alumni. It cannot
possibly be measured in merely financial terms.

— A university president

provide "an educational system adequate to enable us to
live in the complex environment of this century?"

► Do we really want to preserve the diversity of an
educational system that has brought the country a
strength unknown in any other time or any other place?
And, if so, can we?

► How can we provide every youth with as much
education as he is qualified for?

► Can a balance be achieved in the sources of higher
education's support, so that public and private institutions
can flourish side by side?

► How can federal money best be channeled into our
colleges and universities without jeopardizing their inde-
pendence and without discouraging support either from
the state legislatures or from private philanthropy?

The answers will come painfully; there is no panacea.
Quick solutions, fashioned in an atmosphere of crisis, are
likely to compound the problem. The right answers will
emerge only from greater understanding on the part of
the country's citizens, from honest and candid discussion
of the problems, and from the cooperation and support of
all elements of society.

The president of a state university in the Southwest told
us: "Among state universities, nothing is more important

than the growing critical and knowledgeable interest of
our alumni. That interest leads to general support. It
cannot possibly be measured in merely financial terms."

A private college president said: "The greatest single
source of improvement can come from a realization on
the part of a broad segment of our population that higher
education must have support. Not only will people have
to give more, but more will have to give."

But do people understand? A special study by the
Council for Financial Aid to Education found that:

► 82 per cent of persons in managerial positions or
the professions do not consider American business to be
an important source of gift support for colleges and
universities.

► 59 per cent of persons with incomes of $10,000 or
over do not think higher education has financial problems.

► 52 per cent of college graduates apparently are not
aware that their alma mater has financial problems.

To America's colleges and universities, these are the
most discouraging revelations of all. Unless the American
people — especially the college and university alumni —
can come alive to the reality of higher education's im-
pending crisis, then the problems of today will be the
disasters of tomorrow.

The report on this and the preceding 15
pages is the product of a cooperative en-
deavor in which scores of schools, colleges,
and universities are taking part. It was pre-
pared under the direction of the group listed
below, who form editorial projects for
EDUCATION, a non-profit organization associ-
ated with the American Alumni Council.

Naturally, in a report of such length and
scope, not all statements necessarily reflect
the views of all the persons involved, or of
their institutions. Copyright © 1968 by Edi-
torial Projects for Education, Inc. All rights
reserved; no part may be reproduced without
the express permission of the editors. Printed
in U. S. A.

DENTON BEAL

Carnegie- Mellon University

DAVID A. BURR

The University of Oklahoma

MARALYN O. GILLESPIE

Swarthmore College

CHARLES M. HELMKEN

American Alumni Council

GEORGE C. KELLER

Columbia University

JOHN I. MATTILL

Massachusetts Institute
of Technology

KEN METZLER

The University of Oregon

RUSSELL OLIN

The University of Colorado

JOHN W. PATON

Wesleyan University

ROBERT M. RHODES

The University of Pennsylvania

STANLEY SAPLIN

New York University

VERNE A. STADTMAN

The University of California

FREDERIC A. STOTT

Phillips Academy, Andover

FRANK J. TATE

The Ohio State University

CHARLES E. WIDMAYER

Dartmouth College

DOROTHY F. WILLIAMS

Simmons College

RONALD A. WOLK

The Carnegie Coiymiission on
Higher Education

ELIZABETH BOND WOOD

Sweet Briar College

CHESLEY WORTHINGTON
Brown University

CORBIN GWALTNEY

Executive Editor

JOHN A. GROWL

Associate Editor

WILLIAM A. MILLER, JR.

Managing Editor

(I5nar J cttcheS

nominees for
executive board

Nancy Pesek Rastnberj^tr, '51, Chairman of the Nominat-
ing Committee, and members of her committee submit the
following slate of alumnae for the 1968-70 Executive Board
of the Alumnae Association. In accordance with Article X
of the Constitution of the Alumnae Association, "Additional
names for nominees for the Executive Board may be added
to the ballot if sent to the Executive Secretary-Treasurer,
accompanied by fifteen signatures of members of the Asso-
ciation, within two weeks after the slate is published."
Election will be by ballot wliidi will be mailed to all mem-
bers of the A.ssociation.

President: Jacquelin Strickland Dwelle '35

First Vice-President: Catherine Fitzgerald Booker '47

Second Vice-President: Dale Hutter Harris '53

Secretary: Fleming Parker Rutledge '59

Fund Chairman: Carla deCreny Levin '51

Alumnae Representative Chairman: Peachey Lillard

Manning '50
Nominating Chairman: Augusta Saul Edwards '39
Bulb Chairman: Anne Noyes Awtrcy '43
Bequest Chairman: Elizabeth Campbell Gawthrop '39

Regional Chairmen:

I. Betty Doucett Neill '41

II. Eleanor Clement Littleton '46

in. Sara Ann McMullen Lindsey '47

IV. Martha Jean Brooks Miller '41

V. Helen Murchison Lane '46

VI. Jane Shipman Kuntz '58

VII. Kim Patraore Cool "62

VIII. Florence Bagley Witt '42

IX. Mary Lib Vick Thornhill '47

X. Allen Bagby Macneil '41

Members-at-Iarge :

Marion Bower Harrison '48
Nancy Hamel Clark '52
Preston Hodges Hill '49

summer institute

A course in Ornitholog\ and Ecology will be offered at
Sweet Briar College this summer, commencing Sunday after-
noon, June 16, 1968, and ending Saturday morning, June
22, 1968. The course will be taught at the college level,
but there are no prerequisites, and it will not carry college
credit. Sweet Briar alumnae and their husbands will be given
first priority, and enrollment will be limited to 12 partici-
pants. A typical daily .schedule will include a 45-minute
lecture session, an hour and a half of laboratory work, ap-
proximately two hours of field work, and an evening mo-
tion-picture program, with free time from 3 p. m. to the din-
ner hour for swimming, boating, tennis, or other recreation
or relaxation. Housing and meals will be provided in the
Boxwood Inn. Charges for each participant are $30 for
room (this covers six nights at the rate of $5.00 per day),
$25.50 allowance for board, $50 for tuition, and probably
less than $5 for books and supplies; a total of about $110.
None of the sessions are open to the general public. Ernest
P. Edwards, Professor of Biology at Sweet Briar College,

will be in charge of all of the sessions. Please write to Mr.
Edwards or to the Alumnae Office for registration form and
detailed schedule.

nominee for board
of overseers

The Executive Board of the Sweet Briar Akunnae Asso-
ciation submits the name of Dorothy Nicholson Tate '38 to
the members of the association as candidate for election to
the Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar College.

Other names may be added to the ballot if they are sent
to the Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association, ac-
companied by fifteen signatures of members of the asso-
ciation and the written consent of the nominees, within two
weeks after the slate is published. Ballots will be mailed to
all active members of the association, and the candidate's
name will then be submitted to the Board of Overseers as
the nominee from the association.

Mrs. Tate's qualifications for membership on the Board
of Overseers have been demonstrated through her active
participation in student and alumnae affairs and her leader-
ship in community organizations. As an undergraduate
"Dolly" served as secretary of the junior class, and president
of the senior class. She was a charter member of Q.V., and
was a member of Tau Phi, Advisory Council, Classical
Club, International Relations Club, and Orientation Com-
mittee. As an alumna she has served as class secretary from
1944-47; bulb chairman for the Charlotte Club 1959; secre-
tary of the Sweet Briar Club of Charlotte in 1947. She was
a member of the Executive Board of the Alumnae Associa-
tion from 1948-50 and from 1960-66. From 1960-62 she
served as Nominating Chairman of the Sweet Briar Alum-
nae Association, and from 1960-66 she was chairman of
Region IV of the Alumnae Association.

Her community activities are so numerous that space
permits the listing of only a few. Her Junior League work
included the Thrift Shop, admissions chairman. Editor of
"Crier. " She is active in the Presbyterian Church, having
been a circle leader several times, chairman of ^Vorld Mis-
sions in Women's Work, and Bible teacher. She has been
a member of the Florence Crittenton Home Board in 1966;
President of Crittenton Sustaining Board 1967-68. She
served as precinct chairman of Democratic Women's Club
of Charlotte in 1968. She was president of Charlotte Debu-
tante Club from 1963-64; is a member of DAR, and for
two >ears served as chairman of Charlotte Country Day
School.

Mr. Tate, who is also a leader in the business and civic
life of Charlotte, is a business consultant. Their children
are Caroline Tate Noojin who graduated from Sweet Briar
in 1964 and John Austin HI, a junior at L'niversity of North
Carolina. They have one grandchild, Frank K. Noojin, IV.

anted

We know Sweet Briar Alumnae are special —

And so does the American Alumni Council, which this
past year named Sweet Briar one of six educational institu-
tions to receive the Alumni Administration Awards — the
highest honor for an alumnae program.

But excellence is demanding. As our programs grow, so
grow the responsibilities and challenges of our Alumnae
Office. We're POPPING OUR BUTTONS trying to keep
up with you.

Thus the long-felt need for an ASSISTANT EXECU-
TIVE SECRETARY now becomes imperative . . . some
one who can assist in the every-day detail and manage-
ment of an unbelievably diverse alumnae operation. The
Executive Secretary and her Assistant between them would
share responsibilit>^ for

• administration of the Alumnae Office and its budget;
« promotion of the Alumnae Fund;

• support of the Alumnae Club programs;

• directing the bulb project;

• planning for Reunion and Alumnae Council;
« co-ordinating Sweet Briar Day;

• editing the quarterly Alumnae Magazine;

• attending, and providing continuation between, thrice-
yearly Executive Board meetings;

• meeting, greeting and working with all alumnae.

What is needed: a talent for detail, a flair for organiza-
tion, a strong head for figures, and a warm hand of wel-
come for us all.

Do you know some one so qualified? Some one who
would welcome the opportunity to live in this academic
community amidst the serenity and beauty that mean
Sweet Briar? Do you, yourself, qualify?

We do need YOUR HELP. If you have a suggestion,
please write — or ask your candidate to write — to
Mrs. John E. Roth, Jr. (John DeVore Roth '41)
35.34 Deepwoods Lane
Cincinnati, Ohio 45208

reunion

Once again, weather permitting, plans have been made
to hold Commencement outdoors in the Quadrangle and
alumnae will don caps, gowns and hoods and march in the
academic procession. (Don't forget your black pumps,
ladies!) This will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 2.

All clas.ses ending in 3 and 8 will have class reunions this
year. Special honor will be paid to the classes of 1913,
1918, and 1943 who will be observing their fifty-fifth,
fiftieth, and twenty-fifth reunions. Husbands are invited.
Couples will be housed in Reid Dormitory. A reservation
form with detailed information will be mailed to all alumnae
in May.

Each class should elect a president, fund agent and sec-
retary during reunion to serve for the next five years. In
order to bring more thought and planning to the election
of these officers the Reunion Planning Committee suggests
that nominations be sent to the reunion chairmen now so
that a slate can be presented to the class.

The schedule is as follows:

Sunday, June 2

10:00- 9:00 Registration

10:30 Commencement

6:00 Class Picnics and election of class officers

1:00

5:00

Monday, June 3

8:30
10:00 -
11:00

1:00

3:30-

6:00

7:00

8:00

Tuesday, June 4
10:00-12:00
12:30

Bird Walk with Mr. Edwards

Registration

Annual Meeting of Alumnae Association

Luncheon - recognition of reunion classes

Faculty Open Houses

Cocktail Party

Dinner

Concert - Miss Iren Marik

Alumnae College

President Pannell's luncheon in Boxwood
Gardens

Politics is the theme of the Alumnae College, which will
follow the lighter reunion events. The faculty for the "Col-
lege" will be Mr. Paul C. Taylor, Assistant Professor of His-
tory; Mr. Richard C. Rowland, Professor of English; and
Mr. Thomas Gilpatrick, Associate Professor of Government.

The following reading list has been suggested for your
"homework":
Addams, Jane, Twenty Years at Hull-House. Signet Classic

paperback, CQ 348. 95c
Addams, Jane, Democracy and Social Ethics. Anne F. Scott,

Ed., John Harvard Library paperback, 1964, $1.95
White, T. H., The Making of the President, 1960.
Ro.ssiter, C, Parties and Politics in America, Mentor, 75c
Lubell, Samuel, The Future of American Politics (revised

ed. 1967)
Neustadt, R. E., Presidential Power (1960)

class notes

1921

Class Secretary: Ruth Geer Boice,
2553 Glenwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio.
Fund Agent: Ehzabeth Shoop Dixon,

1029 Maryland Ave., Suffolk, Va.
23434

The most rewarding part of acting as class secretary is
hearing how our members are occupying their well-earned
retirement days. First, came a most interesting letter from
Frances Evans Ives including a news article — really an
ovation — about her resignation from office as tovwi clerk
of Montclair, N. J. She is one of our more illustrious
members having been listed in Who's Who of American
Women and Who's Who in the East. Now she is free to
travel and visited "E.xpo 67" with her sister-in-law, Florence
Ives Hathaway. Florence reports all her children married
now and she is also doing some traveling — a trip South
to visit old Sweet Briar friends and then a possible trip
to England this summer.

Edith Marshall is still full of vim and vigor and visited
many high spots this year: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands,
Greece, Spain, and Portugal and finally home for Christmas
with her daughter, Ann, in Kansas City. Edith was home
long enough to enjoy a visit from Dorothy Job who was
enroute around the world with her husband.

Another traveler is Rhoda Allen Worden, who visited
Scandinavian countries, Russia and Poland, and found two
other Sweet Briar gals in her group on the "Meteor."

Also enjoyed two most welcome cards from Fanny
Ellsworth Scannell, who.se family visited "Ex-po." I hope
someday to see Fanny on one of our brief trips to New
York to visit our .son, David.

Although Ophelia Short Seward is unable to travel she is
fortunately surrounded by her interesting family of two
married daughters and seven grandchildren, ranging in age
from Prep school down to Kindergarten. Many of our
class have stopped to see her.

1927

Class Secretary: Pauline Payne
Backus, 960 Hyslip Ave., Westfield,

N. J.

Surprised? Marfi Cramer Crane and I decided our class
was so great that it just wasn't right for us to be the class
with no news so I volunteered. Hope you all will help by
sending lots of news.

M. Brown Wood, glamorous as always when I saw her,
writes that she has a Country Gentleman in Mac, since
he "cjuit" teaching (we'll avoid the word "retire" as
I'm sure we and our husbands are far too young for that!)
However Mac decided he was a tree-trimmer also and
climbed up on their estate truck to prune off a few dead
branches and broke his collar bone. Read this to your
husbands at once.

Another warning to all of >ou is use railings. Three of
us have broken hips. I was the originator of the idea
five years ago. Marg Cramer Crane, jealous of all the
attention I received, proceeded to break hers two years
ago. The most recent of my immitators is Jo Snowden
Durham, now living in Charlestown, \V. Va. since her
Kenneth ' quit " work. Write Jo.

We attended Marg and Bill Crane's 39th wedding
anniversary celebration; hundreds of people came. Marg's
great SBC mathematical learnings enabled her to speak
to each guest 3'2 minutes she had figured and she really
got with everyone. Marg and Bill were the life of the
party. Foster and I see the Cranes every month or so,
and before Bill "quit" employment my Foster and Bill
had lunch together in NYC often. Marg and I are very
lucky our husbands are so fond of each other. Bill has
a race horse, named Bill's Happy Days, who carries the
Sweet Briar colors. How about that!

Sue Milligan Hitchman, in answer to a card I sent her
asking if she thought that she and I might be flower
people if we were at S. B. today, writes, "How do you
know I'm not an over-aged flower people?" That should
throw all of you.

Betty Bachman Hardcastle still lives in Nashville. She,
also, has a husband who has "quit " his occupation. Betty
has done a great deal of traveling, most recently to the
Orient. She also plays much bridge and I'll bet she's
good but I'll still challenge her. She's welcome to the
traveling — as I'm the great non-traveler, as I continually
suspect the pilot of either being feeble-minded or non-alert.

How you all survived teen age children I'll never know!
Our 18 year old son, a freshman football player at the
U. of Maryland, last night skidded in our new car, abolished
it — and miraculously no one was injured. It's his first
accident but it really shakes me up.

Goodie Eskeson Chase '26 lives near me but I seldom
see her as she and her husband (another quitter) travel
constantly. You wouldn't like Goodie, I fear, as she looks
not a day over 35, natural blonde hair, and a gorgeously
thin figure.

Rebecca Manning Cutter and husband, both "quitters" of
the law world, spend the winters in S. Carolina. They
recently returned from a trek to Australia. She sees Gates
often, who went this summer to Austria and Portugal.
Rebecca's daughter, Ann, is in New Guinea. Her son,
Howard, is a senior at Harvard.

Our Cretchen Orr Swift has a private practice in psy-
chiatric social work, and says her work is most concen-
trated when grade cards appear! Dear Cretchen, like
me, adores cats. At present she has a Siamese cat who
uses the John. Really, Cretchen, I have got to see it!

Daphne Bunting Blair has two sons in Viet Nam. The
elder, Larry, has just returned there for the third time,
at his request. A year ago last September he was wounded

twice during operation Deckhouse IV in Quang Tri Pro-
vince with the 26th Marines. He was awarded the Silver
Star for "conspicuous gallantry in action." Bob, her
younger son, is Engineering Officer and Damage Control
Officer on a rocket launcher off the coast of Viet Nam
and has seen plenty of action, too.

From this point on all of our news will be about Marg
and me unless you write me. And we can really bore
you. So do give me news.

1937

Secretary: Elizabeth Lee McPhail,
1635 Hertford Rd., Charlotte, N .C.

28207

We 37'ers seem to be deep in the business of education,
marrying-off and traveling — with short stops to admire
those grandchildren.

Syd Gort Herpers, husband Ferd and son, John (senior
at U. Pacific) spent Christmas with grandson Richard
Knowlton Herpers (born March '67) and his parents in
Portland, Ore. Then off to Spain and Portugal in February.
Syd has reunions with Margaret Glover Paddock '35 when
she comes to visit in Seattle with Barbara Munter Purdue
'32.

Marion Leggett Gates' older son. Chuck, graduated from
Dartmouth last spring and Doug is a senior at Denisen U.
in Granville, Ohio. Marion has joined the young grand-
mothers club with four step-granddaughters.

Peg Merritt Haskell and George are on the list of over-
seas travellers with a spring trip to Rome, Paris, London,
Inverness and Ireland in the planning stage.

Studying Italian and Gourmet cooking left time for a Jan.
Jamaica trip for Molly Gruber Stoddart and husband. With
her daughter studying in Italy, Molly has been busy with
the promotion of Colonial House Tour in Germantown,
especially the Stenton Ma